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Judicial Restraint and the Health Care Litigation
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Jackson of Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law says that the criticism of recent comments by President Obama on the role of judicial review in the health care litigation have been unduly harsh... (More)
DOJ to respond to judge's order to explain Obama statements on health care rulings
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) will respond to a federal appellate judge in Texas who demanded a letter recognizing the federal courts' authority to strike down laws that are passed by Congre (More)
The Role of Partisanship in the Health Care Reform Challenge
JURIST Guest Columnist Trevor Burrus, a legal associate for the Cato Institute, argues that despite claims by critics of the Supreme Court, "partisanship" is nothing more than an epithet with little descriptive content and will not be the driving fac (More)
Supreme Court hears final day of health care arguments
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard the final day of arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST backgrounder] in the case of United States Department of Health and Human Services v (More)
Supreme Court hears arguments on health care individual mandate
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the second day of oral arguments in United States Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida [transcript; JURIST report], the challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; J (More)
Supreme Court hears first day of arguments on health care act challenge
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in United States Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida [transcript; JURIST report] on whether the suit brought by challengers of the minimum coverage provision of the Patient Protection (More)
The Role of Lochner in the Health Care Litigation
JURIST Guest Columnist David Bernstein of George Mason University School of Law, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, argues that striking down the individual mandate of the health care reform legislation does not implicate a resurgence of the n (More)
Financial Reporting Renders Health Care Reform Unconstitutional
JURIST Guest Columnist Joseph Marren, President and Chief Executive Officer of KStone Partners LLC, says that the recent health care reform act may be unconstitutional due to inaccurate financial reporting to the states and the public at large... (More)
State AGs file suit to block new contraception mandates
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning , joined by attorneys general from six other states, filed a lawsuit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Nebraska challenging new health care mandates that require the provision of contracept (More)
Understanding the Health Care Reform Litigation
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that to understand the ongoing health care reform litigation, it is important to keep certain points in mind, and provides an in-depth preview to the issues to b (More)