       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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               PATRICK B. BUCKLEY,
                 Claimant-Appellant,

                           v.

 ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
              Respondent-Appellee.
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                      2013-7073
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   Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims in No. 11-1012, Chief Judge Bruce E.
Kasold.
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                     JUDGMENT
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   KENNETH M. CARPENTER, Carpenter, Chartered, of
Topeka, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant.

    PHYLLIS JO BAUNACH, Senior Trial Counsel, Classifi-
cation Unit, United States Department of Justice, of
Washington, DC, argued for respondent-appellee. With
her on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attor-
ney General, BRYANT G. SNEE, Acting Director, and
MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Deputy Director. Of counsel on
the brief were MICHAEL J. TIMINSKI, Deputy Assistant
General Counsel, and CHRISTINA L. GREGG, Attorney,
United States Department of Veterans Affairs, of Wash-
ington, DC. Of counsel was Y. KEN LEE, Attorney.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:



   PER CURIAM (DYK, REYNA, and TARANTO, Circuit
Judges).
           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT


  May 9, 2014                     /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole
   Date                           Daniel E. O’Toole
                                  Clerk of Court
