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BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS CITY v. BELL

Civ. A. No. 84-2255.

596 F.Supp. 1053 (1984)

BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF KANSAS CITY, a Missouri not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff, v. Fletcher BELL, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Kansas; Defendant. and Kansas Optometric Association, Inc.; Kansas Chiropractic Association; Kansas Association of Professional Psychologists; and Kansas Podiatry Association, Intervenor Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

November 7, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max O. Bagby, Christopher C. Iliff, Bagby, Jacob & Iliff, Kansas City, Mo., J. Nick Badgerow, James R. Goheen, McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kansas City, Kans., for plaintiffs.

General Motors Corporation, Paul Scott Kelly, Jr., John J. Yates, Gage & Tucker, Kansas City, Mo., amicus curiae.

William W. Sneed, Michael J. Dutton, Brenda J. Mitchell, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Topeka, Kans., for Fletcher Bell.

John C. Peterson, Hamilton, Peterson, Tipton & Muxlow, Topeka, Kans., Larry L. Luttjohann, Wagner, Arterburn & Luttjohann, Topeka, Kans., for intervenors-defendants.

Phil M. Cartmell, Jr., Stephen A. Murphy, J. Patrick Shepard, Gage & Tucker, Overland Park, Kans., amicus curiae General Motors Corp.

Jordan Rossen, Leonard Page, International Union, UAW, Detroit, Mich., C. David Whipple, Whipple & Kraft, Thomas E. Osborn, Kansas City, Kans., amicus curiae International Union, United Auto., Aerospace and Agr. Implement Workers of America.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SAFFELS, District Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action challenging a Kansas statute on the grounds that it is pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and that it violates the United States Constitution. This cause was tried to the court without a jury on September 6, 1984. The parties have completed post-trial briefing and the court is now prepared to rule.

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