Suit Against Health Law Will Move To Trial After Florida Judge’s Ruling

October 18, 2010

“In a foreboding ruling for the Obama administration, a federal judge in Florida decreed Thursday that a legal challenge to the new health care law by officials from 20 states could move forward …,” The New York Times reports: “‘At this stage in the litigation, this is not even a close call,’ wrote Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District Court in Pensacola, Fla., before asserting that the insurance mandate was an unprecedented exercise of Congressional authority. ‘Of course, to say that something is ‘novel’ and ‘unprecedented’ does not necessarily mean that it is ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘improper,’ Judge Vinson continued.” (Kaiser Health News)