Case: 13-7006 Document: 6 Page: 1 Filed: 11/09/2012

NOTE: This order is nonprecedential.

muiteb ~tates (!Court of §ppeaIs for tbe jfeberaI (!Circuit ROBERT J. SPAHN, Claimant-Appellant, v. ERIC K. SHINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Respondent-Appellee.

2013-7006

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in case no. 11-1846, Judge Mary J.

Schoelen.

ON MOTION

ORDER The parties jointly move to stay the appeal pending the court's disposition in Genaro Vazquez-Claudio v. Shinseki, No. 2012-7114.

The parties assert that the appeals involve the same question of interpretation of a Department of Veterans Mfairs regulation governing rating service-connected mental disorders.

Case: 13-7006 Document: 6 Page: 2 Filed: 11/09/2012

ROBERT SPAHN V. SHINSEKI 2 Upon consideration thereof, IT Is ORDERED THAT: (1) The joint motion to stay the appeal is granted.

The parties are directed to inform this court, within 14 days of the final disposition in Vazquez-Claudio how this appeal should proceed. (2) A copy of this order shall be transmitted to the merits panel assigned to Genaro Vazquez-Claudio v. Shinseki, No. 2012-7114.

FOR THE COURT

/s/ Jan Horbaly Jan Horbaly Clerk s26