Obama Administration asks Supreme Court to take up health reform case *

USA - October 11 2011
The Obama Administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the individual mandate, a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that the Administration once referred to as the “linchpin” of the sweeping 2010 health reform law.

Co-authors: J. Peter Rich.

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Pennsylvania federal judge finds the individual mandate unconstitutional and strikes down closely related provisions *

USA - September 14 2011
On September 13, 2011, a federal district court judge in Pennsylvania ruled that the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional and that certain provisions closely linked to the individual mandate must also be struck down.

Co-authors: J. Peter Rich.

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Eleventh Circuit strikes the ACA's individual mandate as unconstitutional, setting up a circuit split and making Supreme Court review more likely *

USA - August 23 2011
In a 2-1 decision on August 12, 2011, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.

Co-authors: J. Peter Rich.

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Eleventh Circuit: individual mandate unconstitutional, but rest of ACA stands *

USA - August 23 2011
The recent high profile decision by the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the opinion by a lower court that the individual mandate under the health reform law is unconstitutional.

Co-authors: J. Peter Rich.

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Supreme Court receives new request to consider constitutionality of health reform law *

USA - July 29 2011
The Supreme Court of the United States received a new request today that it consider the question of whether the “individual mandate” under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional or not. 

Co-authors: J. Peter Rich.

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