LIFE PARTNERS, INC. v. MORRISON

Nos. 06-1370, 06-1371.

484 F.3d 284 (2007)

LIFE PARTNERS, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Theodore V. MORRISON, Jr.; Mark C. Christie, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the State Corporation Commission; Alfred W. Gross, in his official capacity as the Commissioner of Insurance; Judith Williams Jagdmann, in her official capacity as Commissioner of the State Corporation Commission, Defendants-Appellees, Robert F. McDonnell, in his official capacity as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Intervenor-Appellee, and Clinton Miller, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the State Corporation Commission, Defendant. National Association of Insurance Commissioners; North American Securities Administrators Association, Incorporated, Amici Supporting Appellees, and Viatical Settlement Professionals, Incorporated, Movant. Life Partners, Incorporated, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Theodore V. Morrison, Jr.; Mark C. Christie, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the State Corporation Commission; Alfred W. Gross, in his official capacity as the Commissioner of Insurance; Judith Williams Jagdmann, in her official capacity as Commissioner of the State Corporation Commission, Defendants-Appellants, and Clinton Miller, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the State Corporation Commission, Defendant, and Robert F. McDonnell, in his official capacity as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Intervenor-Defendant. North American Securities Administrators Association, Incorporated; National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Amici Supporting Appellants, and Viatical Settlement Professionals, Incorporated, Movant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 30, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Douglas Michael Palais, Leclair Ryan, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Maureen Riley Matsen, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Robert A. Dybing, Thompson & McMullan, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

ON BRIEF: Cameron S. Matheson, Leclair Ryan, P.C., Richmond, Virginia; Lee E. Goodman, Robert P. Howard, Leclair Ryan, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Faisal S. Qureshi, Thompson & McMullan, Richmond, Virginia; Ronald N. Regnery, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Philip R. de Haas, William H. Chambliss, Pamela B. Beckner, Scott A. White, State Corporation Commission of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants. Rex A. Staples, Stephen W. Hall, Lesley M. Walker, North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc., Washington, D.C., for North American Securities Administrators Association, Incorporated, Amicus Supporting Appellees/Cross-Appellants. Elizabeth Mason Horsley, Williams Mullen, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Amicus Supporting Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge MICHAEL and Judge TRAXLER joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge.

We decide, in this case of first impression, whether the Virginia Viatical Settlements Act, Va.Code Ann. § 38.2-6000, et seq., which regulates viatical settlements with insureds who are residents of Virginia, is saved from the dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by the McCarran...

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