       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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             QUARENO COLANTONIO,
                Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS
                  AFFAIRS,
              Respondent-Appellee.

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                      2012-7094
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    Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in case no. 07-749, Judge Alan G. Lance,
Sr.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   SEAN A. RAVIN, Attorney at Law, of Washington, DC,
argued for claimant-appellant.

    ALEX P. HONTOS, Trial Attorney, Commercial
Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States
Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for
respondent-appellee. With him on the brief were STUART
F. DELERY, Acting Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E.
DAVIDSON, Director, and TODD M. HUGHES, Deputy
Director. Of counsel on the brief were MICHAEL J.
TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, and
CHRISTA A. SHRIBER, Staff Attorney, United States
Department of Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (DYK, MOORE, and WALLACH, Circuit
Judges).


           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



January 15, 2013              /s/ Jan Horbaly
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