Armed Forces Members Fail in Constitutional Attack on the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act

In a case involving current and retired members of the armed forces challenging law allowing their retirement pay to be divided in state divorce proceedings, dismissal of individual plaintiffs' claims, and summary judgment in favor of defendant on association's claims, were affirmed by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Adkins v. Rumsfield, as, although the district court erred in finding it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the individual plaintiffs' claims, plaintiffs failed to state cognizable claims against the constitutionality of the Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act under substantive and procedural due process, the armed forces clause, the full faith and credit clause, and equal protection.