Anastasia Kapourelos v. United States of America and William J. Driver, Administrator of Veterans Affairs

OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

Public Law 88-664 of October 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1096, 38 U.S.C. § 725, provided for the temporary reopening of the veterans’ insurance program and authorized the issuance of policies of National Service Life Insurance to veterans, including those otherwise not insurable because of non-service-connected disability. In implementing this authorization, the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs promulgated a regulation that excluded from the risks to be covered by the newly authorized life insurance death occurring within one year after the effective date of…