United States Ninth Circuit

ERISA preempts a state law that allows a predeceased spouse's interest in her ex-husband's pension plan to pass to her heirs.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/09/2001
• Decided 02/11/2002
• Published 02/11/2002

Judges

• Before:  PREGERSON and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and CHARLES WEINER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John A. DeRonde, Jr., Fairfield, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Thomas Bowen and Florence E. Culp, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.