Mertens v. Hewitt Associates

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Mertens v. Hewitt Associates
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 22, 1993 Decided June 1, 1993
Full case name	William J. Mertens, Alex W. Bandrowski, James A. Clark, and Russell Franz, Petitioners v. Hewitt Associates
Citations	508 U.S. 248 (more) 113 S. Ct. 2063; 124 L. Ed. 2d 161; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 3742; 61 U.S.L.W. 4510; 16 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2169; 93 Cal. Daily Op. Service 3918; 7 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 319
Case history
Prior	948 F.2d 607 (9th Cir. 1991); cert. granted, 506 U.S. 812 (1992).
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Blackmun, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas
Dissent	White, joined by Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor
Laws applied
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.

Mertens v. Hewitt Associates, 508 U.S. 248 (1993), is the second in the trilogy of United States Supreme Court ERISA preemption cases that effectively denies any remedy for employees who are harmed by medical malpractice or other bad acts of their health plan if they receive their health care from their employer.