Over the last few days, many articles are blogs have appeared on a March 1, 2016 Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision, Gobeille v Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. The case decided that a Vermont law requiring claims data from "all payers" violated a federal law called ERISA, that generally shields employer-self-insured plans from state regulation. The case has some interesting implications for big data in health care, and attracted a 102 page amicus curiae filing from the U.S. government. Details after the break.