United States Second Circuit

In a suit for reimbursement of insurance benefits, dismissal of the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed where plaintiff's contract claims arise under state law since the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act does not affirmatively authorize the creation of federal common law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/14/2005
• Published 01/18/2005

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  SACK, SOTOMAYOR and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard S. Wolfson, Morrison Cohen LLP, New York, New York;  Anthony F. Shelley, Miller & Chevalier Chartered, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant., Denis F. Gordon, David M. Ermer, Gordon & Ermer, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Association of Federal Health Organizations., Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General;  David N. Kelley, United States Attorney;  David Kennedy, Assistant United States Attorney;  Mark B. Stern, Alisa B. Klein, Attorneys, Civil Division, Department of Justice;  Mark A. Robbins, General Counsel, James S. Green, Associate General Counsel, United States Office of Personnel Management, for Amicus Curiae the United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas J. Stock, Stock & Carr, Mineola, New York, for Defendant-Appellee.