         NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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                  ADAM A. SHIRK,
                  Claimant-Appellant

                           v.

   PETER O'ROURKE, ACTING SECRETARY OF
            VETERANS AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee
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                      2017-1831
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 15-3079, Senior Judge Alan G.
Lance, Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Law Offices of Carpenter
Chartered, Topeka, KS, argued for claimant-appellant.

    JANA MOSES, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil
Division, United States Department of Justice, Washing-
ton, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. Also represent-
ed by MOLLIE LENORE FINNAN, ALLISON KIDD-MILLER,
ROBERT EDWARD KIRSCHMAN, JR., CHAD A. READLER;
CHRISTOPHER O. ADELOYE, Y. KEN LEE, Office of General
Counsel, United States Department of Veterans Affairs,
Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

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

                    ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



   July 11, 2018                 /s/ Peter R. Marksteiner
      Date                       Peter R. Marksteiner
                                 Clerk of Court
