Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Appearance
Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company | |
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Argued December 2, 2015 Decided March 1, 2016 | |
Full case name | Alfred Gobeille, in his Official Capacity as Chair of the Vermont Green Mountain Care Board, Petitioner v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company |
Docket no. | 14–181 |
Citations | 577 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 936; 194 L. Ed. 2d 20 |
Opinion announcement | Opinion announcement |
Case history | |
Prior | Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Donegan, 746 F.3d 497 (2d Cir. 2014) |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Kennedy, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Breyer, Alito, Kagan |
Concurrence | Thomas |
Concurrence | Breyer |
Dissent | Ginsburg, joined by Sotomayor |
Laws applied | |
Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. |
Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 577 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Vermont state law requiring the disclosure of certain information relating to health care services was preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to the extent that the state law applied to ERISA plans.[1] Writing for a majority of the Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that the Vermont law "impose[d] duties that are inconsistent with the central design of ERISA, which is to provide a single uniform national scheme for the administration of ERISA plans without interference from laws of the several States".[2]
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