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003805P.pdf   02/21/2002  David Tillery  v.  Hoffman Enclosures
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  00-3805
   District of Minnesota   
   Civil case - ERISA. District court properly applied abuse of 
   discretion standard to review plan's decision to deny benefits 
   in bowl transplant case; while plan may have had a conflict 
   of interest because it was partially self-funded, plaintiffs could 
   not establish the other factors which would call into play a 
   less deferential standard of review; under abuse of discretion 
   standard, the decision to deny benefits was supported by 
   substantial evidence.