       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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             LAWRENCE A. KOKENGE,
                Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2013-7088
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-2770, Judge Alan G. Lance, Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    TARA K. HOGAN, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Depart-
ment of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respond-
ent-appellee. With her on the brief were STUART F.
DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, BRYANT G. SNEE,
Acting Director, and SCOTT D. AUSTIN, Assistant Director.
Of counsel on the brief was MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy
Assistant General Counsel, United States Department of
Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. Of counsel was
ANNA ELAZAN, Attorney.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



   PER CURIAM (LOURIE, SCHALL, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


 April 17, 2014                   /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
       Date                       Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
