Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Supreme Court of the United States
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 nos.	14–181
Citations	577 U.S. ___ (more)
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Prior history	On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Court membership
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
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]

References

1. Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., No. 14–181, 577 U.S. ___, slip op. at 1, 13 (2016).
2. Gobeille, slip op. at 13.

External links

• Supreme Court slip opinion, Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company