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ADKINS v. RUMSFELD

No. 05-2307.

464 F.3d 456 (2006)

Tammy ADKINS; Gerrit J. Allen; Daniel Anderson; William Arnold; Donald O. Austin; Robert M. Balick; Charles A. Barat; Richard A. Becker; Paul A. Brandmire; Ricky L. Brennan, Sr.; Robert D. Buxton; John Capewell; Philip P. Casale, Sr.; William F. Conroy, III; Frederick A. Cook; Ronald L. Deming; William H. Drawbond; Brian D. Dunn; Clifford C. Eckert; Stephanie A. Eeckhout; Sherry E. Fancher; Wendell D. Farris; Richard D. Ferrell; Terry P. Fletcher; Robert Frick; Maurice R. Gagnon; Gregory L. Goins; Steven M. Hanger; Gregory Harris; Jackie D. Hawkins; Brian J. Hendricks; Diane Hobbs; James William Hunter; William Paul Kennemer; William J. Koselka; Roger Ledbetter; James W. Loberg; Kenneth Manring; Stephen Monks; Frederick Nehrings; John B. Noone, Jr.; Edwin E. Ostroot, II; Steven Perrin; Marvin L. Potts; Lorraine C. Reis; Ronald A. Resare; Donald E. Rotunda; Michael Speir; Lloyd E. Stanton, Jr.; Marvin G. Stroud, Jr.; Robert W. Throckmorton; Glenn Udart; Michael Varela; Mickey Wright; Dorothy J. Yarde; George Zamora; Carroll Zimmerman; ULSG, LLC; Bruce Paquette; Arthur Wilson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Donald H. RUMSFELD, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 18, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David Jeremy Bederman, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellants. Dennis Carl Barghaan, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Jonathan L. Katz, Marks & Katz, L.L.C., Silver Spring, Maryland, for Appellants. Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.

Before WIDENER and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and JOSEPH R. GOODWIN, United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MICHAEL wrote the opinion, in which Judge GOODWIN joined. Judge WIDENER wrote a separate concurring opinion.

MICHAEL, Circuit Judge.

The Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act (Act) gives states the option to classify a United States armed forces member's disposable military retirement pay as property divisible upon divorce. Pub.L. No. 97-252, 96 Stat. 730 (1982) (codified as amended at 10 U.S.C. § 1408...

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