Health Care Lawsuit

Mike Sacks

Obama Administration Files Health Care Law Defense With Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.07.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Friday afternoon submitted its opening brief to the Supreme Court defending the constitutionality of the law...

Anti-Health Care Law Crusader Will Run For Governor, Says GOP Official

AP | By BOB LEWIS | Posted 01.30.2012

RICHMOND, Va. -- Virginia's crusading conservative attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, has decided to run for governor in 2013, touching off a fierce, t...

The Simple Answer to the "Individual Mandate" Question

Paul Abrams | Posted 12.03.2011

Paul Abrams

Now that the Obama administration has decided to appeal directly to the Supreme Court, the question is front-and-center.

Mike Sacks

Who's Urging Supreme Court To Listen To GOP Judge On Health Care?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.29.2011

WASHINGTON -- When the Justice Department submitted a petition to the Supreme Court yesterday urging it to declare once and for all that the 2010 heal...

Obama Administration Will Not Seek Appeal Of Atlanta Ruling Against Health Care Law

AP | By PETE YOST | Posted 11.26.2011

By PETE YOST, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has decided not to ask a federal appeals court in Atlanta for furthe...

Court Rules Key Health Care Law Provision Unconstitutional

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 10.12.2011

ATLANTA — A federal appeals panel struck down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul Friday, moving the argum...

Health Care Reform Lawsuit Reaches Supreme Court

AP | Posted 09.26.2011

WASHINGTON -- A conservative law firm asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to strike down the health care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals...

Affordable Care Act 'Ultimately Will Be Upheld in Its Entirety'

Ron Pollack | Posted 08.09.2011

Ron Pollack

To suggest that Americans are better off without these new rights is ludicrous. Florida judge Roger Vinson's ruling is simply conservative judicial activism run amok.

Federal Judges Raise Pointed Questions About Health Care Law

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 08.09.2011

ATLANTA — Three federal appeals judges expressed unease with a requirement that virtually all Americans carry health insurance or face penalties...

Why Today's Health Care Lawsuit Could Matter Most

Time | Kate Pickert | Posted 08.08.2011

The Affordable Care Act is back in court on Wednesday, with the government and a coalition of 26 states presenting arguments in an Atlanta courtroom f...

Health Care Law Faces Key Test In Highly Conservative Court

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 08.08.2011

ATLANTA — Judges on a federal appeals court panel on Wednesday repeatedly raised questions about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, ...

Health Care Reform Lawsuit Headed To Court

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 08.04.2011

ATLANTA — An Atlanta federal courtroom will soon become the latest battlefield in the ongoing fight over President Barack Obama's health care ov...

More Than Two Dozen States Urge U.S. Court To Overturn Health Care Reform

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 07.04.2011

ATLANTA — More than two dozen states challenging the health care overhaul urged a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to strike down the Obama admin...

Supreme Court Takes No Action On Virginia Health Care Case

AP | Posted 06.18.2011

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has taken no action on Virginia's call for speedy review of the health care law. Virginia Attorney General Ken C...

Missouri Attorney General: Health Care Mandate Unconstitutional

AP | Posted 06.11.2011

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says Congress overstepped its constitutional powers when it mandated that most Americans...

Florida Judge Refuses To Halt Health Care Law

Posted 05.25.2011

MIAMI (Reuters) - A federal judge in Florida on Thursday refused to order the Obama administration to stop implementing its far-reaching healthcare ...

Obama Administration Defends Health Care Reform In Court

AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 05.25.2011

RICHMOND, Va. — President Barack Obama's administration said in court papers Monday that a federal judge in Virginia erred in striking down the ...

Judge Tosses Latest Obama Health Care Suit

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit claiming that President Barack Obama's requirement that all Americans have health in...

Judge Issues Deadline For States In Health Care Lawsuit

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida has given the 26 states suing to stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul until Thursday ...

Federal Judge Rules Health Care Provision Unconstitutional

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

Moments ago, a district judge in Virginia ruled that the Affordable Care Act's individual requirement to purchase health care coverage violated the Co...

Sam Stein

Obama Administration Scores Legal Victory On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration won a victory Thursday in the winding legal debate surrounding the president's signature health care law, as a ...

Florida Judge Who Ruled On Health Care Reform Has His Own Coverage Story

AP | MELISSA NELSON and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

PENSACOLA, Fla. — The judge who ruled the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional questioned whether the government was rea...

Florida Judge Rules Key Components Of Health Care Reform Unconstitutional

AP | MELISSA NELSON and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

PENSACOLA, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that President Barack Obama's entire health care overhaul law is unconstitutional, pla...

DISMISSED: Federal Judge Rejects Health Care Challenge

AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 05.25.2011

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Liberty University's lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new federal health care...

Sam Stein

Virginia Panel Acknowledges Utility Of Individual Mandate, Urges State To Build Off Of Obamacare

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Virginia's attorney general may have successfully challenged the president's health care law in court. Its governor may have spent the last few days s...