NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________

YOLANDA F. HICKMAN, Claimant-Appellant,

v.

ERIC K. SHINSEKI, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Respondent-Appellee. ______________________

2013-7100 ______________________

Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in No. 11-2769, Judge Robert N. Davis. ______________________

JUDGMENT ______________________

JAMIE MARIE ATWOOD, ABS Legal Advocates, P.A., of Lawrence, Kansas, argued for claimant-appellant. On the brief was VIRGINIA A. GIRARD-BRADY.

L. MISHA PREHEIM, Senior Trial Counsel, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Depart- ment of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for respond- ent-appellee. With him on the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and MARTIN F. HOCKEY, JR., Assis- tant 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 Washington, DC. Of counsel were LARA EILHARDT and Y. KEN LEE, Attorneys, United States Veterans Affairs, of Washington, DC. ______________________

THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, PROST, and CHEN, Circuit Judges). AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

March 6, 2014 /s/ Daniel E. O’Toole Date Daniel E. O’Toole Clerk of Court