United States Court of Appeals
                           FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                    No. 10-1909
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Joeffre Kolosky,                    *
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           Appellant,               * Appeal from the United States
                                    * District Court for the
      v.                            * District of Minnesota.
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Nationwide Life Insurance Company, * [UNPUBLISHED]
                                    *
           Appellee.                *
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                              Submitted: September 22, 2010
                                 Filed: October 5, 2010
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Before LOKEN, MURPHY, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

      Joeffre Kolosky appeals the district court’s1 dismissal of his diversity action in
which he alleged that Nationwide Life Insurance Company improperly denied
coverage under an insurance contract. After careful de novo review, see Banks v. Int’l
Union Elec., Elec., Technical, Salaried & Mach. Workers, 

, 1052 (8th
Cir. 2004), we conclude that dismissal of the suit on Minnesota-law res judicata



      1
      The Honorable Patrick J. Schiltz, United States District Judge for the District
of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Arthur J.
Boylan, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.
grounds was proper, see Brown-Wilbert, Inc. v. Copeland Buhl & Co., 

, 220 (Minn. 2007) (res judicata factors).

      Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
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