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GROOMS v. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

No. 96-2392.

154 F.3d 181 (1998)

Romona GROOMS; Robin Crewe; Rhonda Grooms; Roshaun Grooms; Terrance Grooms, a minor, by his guardian and next friend Robin Crewe; Irving Grooms, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 8, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Blanton Farmer, Thompson & McMullan, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants. Debra J. Prillaman, Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Richmond, Virginia; Sherry Susan Laird, Law Department, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, New York, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Alton A. Martin, Thompson & McMullan, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants. Helen F. Fahey, United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Richmond, Virginia; Alvin Pasternak, Associate General Counsel, Law Department, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, New York, for Appellees.

Before NIEMEYER, WILLIAMS, and MOTZ, Circuit Judges.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

We are presented with the question of whether the use by the Office of Personnel Management (the "OPM") of Standard Form 2817 to allow federal employees to elect or decline life insurance coverage violated the statutory or regulatory requirements of the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance...

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