Hillman v. Maretta

Hillman v. Maretta
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 22, 2013 Decided June 3, 2013
Full case name	Jacqueline Hillman, petitioner, v. Judy A. Maretta
Docket no.	11-1221
Citations	569 U.S. 483 (more) 133 S. Ct. 1943; 186 L. Ed. 2d 43
Holding
Section D of the Virginia statute is pre-empted by FEGLIA
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan; Scalia (all but footnote 4)
Concurrence	Thomas (in judgment)
Concurrence	Alito (in judgment)
Laws applied
Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act (1954)

Hilmann v. Maretta, 569 U.S. 483 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court unanimously ruled that a Virginia statute revoking beneficiary status for spouses whose marital status has changed was pre-empted by the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act (1954).^[1]