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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 

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The Honorable Charles R. Wolle, United States District Judge for the southern

District of Iowa.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-1988

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Edmund T. Biggs, *

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Appellant, *

* Appeal from the United States

v. * District Court for the Southern

* District of Iowa.

Deere & Company; John Deere *

Company, sued as John Deere * [UNPUBLISHED]

Davenport Works; International Union, *

United Automobile, Aerospace & *

Agricultural Implement Workers of *

America, Local 281, *

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Appellees. *

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Submitted: April 20, 2006

Filed: May 2, 2006

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Before MELLOY, FAGG, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Edmund T. Biggs appeals the district court’s*

 adverse grant of summary

judgment in Biggs's Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) lawsuit.

Having conducted de novo review, see Torres v. UNUM Life Ins. Co. of Am., 405

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F.3d 670, 677 (8th Cir. 2005), we agree Biggs’s ERISA claims must fail: the issues

he raises are foreclosed by a settlement agreement he signed in 1991. Cf. Leavitt v.

Nw. Bell Tel. Co., 921 F.2d 160, 162 (8th Cir. 1990) (private settlements of ERISA

claims do not compromise policies underlying ERISA). Biggs offered no evidence

in support of his claims of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, or improper conduct

involving either the settlement agreement or the calculation of his benefits. His

remaining assertions are either raised for the first time on appeal or are without merit.

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. We also deny the pending

motion.

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