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063216P.pdf   04/24/2007  John T. Anderson  v.  U.S. Bancorp
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3216
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Riley and Melloy, Circuit
   Judges]
   Civil case - ERISA. District court's determination that no serious
   procedural irregularity tainted the review process is supported by
   the record; any conflict of interest caused by defendant funding a
   severance plan administered by a committee composed of its employees
   did not cause a serious breach of the plan administrator's fiduciary
   duty; district court did not err in refusing to apply a 
   less-deferential standard to the decision to deny plaintiff's
   application for severance benefits; plan administrator's decision
   that plaintiff was not entitled to severance benefits because he was
   discharged for knowingly and willfully violating the company's data
   privacy policies was supported by the evidence and was a reasonable
   interpretation of the provisions of the plan.