Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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• holding that district court properly limited itself to the unambiguous contractual language in resolving an issue of contract interpretation
• despite finding defendant an ERISA fiduciary, circuit court upheld district court’s substantive dismissal of the state law contract claim
• vacated judgment had no preclusive effect in later proceeding involving same parties when parties entered agreement to that effect
• “It is well-settled in this circuit that a vacated order has no collateral estoppel effect.”
• \Extrinsic evidence is unnecessary where it is determined that the contractual language is unambiguous.\
• denying preclusive effect to a judgment vacated upon settlement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).