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021824P.pdf   12/31/2002  Gary Lee Eckelkamp  v.  Dennis J. Beste
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-1824
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Civil case - ERISA. District court did not err in granting 
   defendants' motion for summary judgment on plaintffs' 
   claim they breached their fiduciary duties by using their 
   positions to overcompensate themselves and by failing to 
   ensure that annual appraisals were properly conducted, 
   as plaintiffs failed under Daubert to produce credible 
   and admissible expert evidence to support their allegations; 
   state law double derivative action was preempted by 
   ERISA; defendants were entitled to summary judgment 
   on retaliatory discharge claim as they established 
   nondiscriminatory grounds for discharge which plaintiff 
   failed to show were pretextual.