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Deborah WILSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL MILLS, INC., Defendant-Consolidated-Defendant-Appellee.
    
    No. 10-2612-cv.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    May 25, 2011.
    
      Charles Miller II (Lindy Korn, of counsel), Buffalo, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    David L. Christlieb (Keith C. Hult, of counsel), Littler Mendelson, Chicago, IL, for Defendanb-Appellee.
    PRESENT: JOSÉ A. CABRANES, REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and JANE A. RESTANI, Judge.
    
    
      
       The Clerk of Court is instructed to amend the official caption as set forth above.
    
    
      
       The Honorable Jane A. Restani, of the United States Court of International Trade, sitting by designation.
    
   SUMMARY ORDER

Plaintiff-appellant Deborah Wilson (“plaintiff’ or “Wilson”) appeals from a June 2, 2010 order of the District Court granting the motion of defendant-appellee General Mills, Inc. to enforce a settlement agreement (“the Agreement”) between the parties. The Agreement was the result of a lawsuit brought by plaintiff, alleging sexual and racial harassment, discrimination, and retaliation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, and New York State Human Rights Law, Executive Law § 290. The Agreement provided, inter alia, that plaintiff would release General Mills and any of its subsidiaries or other related bodies from any claims arising from this matter in any federal or state judicial or administrative body. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the facts and procedural history of this case and the issues raised on appeal.

In its June 2, 2010 order, Wilson v. General Mils, 08-cv-00597 (W.D.N.Y. June 2, 2010), following de novo review, the District Court adopted the Report and Recommendation (“R & R”) of Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy, see Report and Recommendation, 08-cv-00597 (S)(M) (W.D.N.Y. Feb. 18, 2010), and Judge Skretny rejected plaintiffs subsequent objections to the R & R.

We review a District Court’s decision to deny a motion to reinstate a case to the court calendar following settlement for abuse of discretion. See Powell v. Omni-com, BBDO/PHD, 497 F.3d 124, 128 (2d Cir.2007); cf. Sims v. Blot, 534 F.3d 117, 132 (2d Cir.2008) (“A district court has abused its discretion if it based its ruling on an erroneous view of the law or on a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence, or rendered a decision that cannot be located within the range of permissible decisions.” (alteration, citations, and quotation marks omitted)). We review the factual finding that a settlement agreement exists, and that parties assented to that agreement, for clear error. Powell, 497 F.3d at 128. “[A] finding is ‘clearly erroneous’ when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court ... is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.” Anderson v. Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564, 573, 105 S.Ct. 1504, 84 L.Ed.2d 518 (1985) (quotation marks omitted).

In his careful and well-reasoned R & R, the Magistrate Judge explained that, based on the totality of the record before the District Court, plaintiff had consented, on the record, to the Agreement and that any alleged dissatisfaction with her counsel could not void the Agreement. For substantially the reasons stated by Magistrate Judge McCarthy in his R & R of February 18, 2010, we affirm the judgment of the District Court with respect to all claims, and we now enter judgment enforcing the Agreement.

CONCLUSION

For the reasons stated above, the judgment of the District Court is AFFIRMED, judgment is entered for defendant, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the settlement agreement in any forum that is contemplated by its terms.

The mandate shall issue forthwith.