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The New York Times, to no one’s surprise, opposes our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare on the grounds that the ACA “tax” did not originate in the House, as the Constitution requires. Prof. Randy Barnett has a response here. As Barnett notes, “The Supreme Court has never ruled that this ‘completely ...

On June 10, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the next big Obamacare lawsuit, Coons v. Geithner, which among other things challenges the constitutionality of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. That’s the board of “Platonic Guardians” that will set Medicare reimbursement rates—and which is immune from jud ...

I talked this morning with Armstrong & Getty about the argument in PLF’s Obamacare lawsuit. If you missed it, you can listen online here–scroll forward to about eight and a half minutes. … ...

Cato’s Ilya Shapiro says in his latest Forbes column that our challenge to the constitutionality of Obamacare “keeps open yet another front in the ideological battle of our time: are we to enforce the Constitution’s structural provisions (which stand in the way of much of the progressive project) or relegate our founding document ...

If you missed the Cato Institute forum yesterday about our Obamacare lawsuit–which was held just minutes after the argument ended–you can now watch online, or click here to download just the audio. … ...

Facing a three-judge panel at the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on May 8, 2014 Pacific Legal Foundation principal attorney Timothy Sandefur argued PLF’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act, Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. PLF’s lawsuit focuses on Obamacare’s individual mandate, which requires Americans to bu ...

Priscilla Zotti and Nicholas Schmitz’s new article, The Origination Clause: Meaning, Precedent, and Theory from the 12th Century to the 21st Century, in the latest issue of the British Journal of American Legal Studies, has been posted online. Click here to download the issue and flip forward to page 71. Zotti and Schmitz present a … ...

PLF’s Todd Gaziano will be testifying on April 29 before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice regarding the Original Meaning of the Origination Clause. That, of course, is the provision of the Constitution that requires all bills for raising revenue to originate in the House of Representativ ...

The Washington Times has published my op-ed about the Hobby Lobby case, in which we and our friends at the Reason Foundation and the Individual Rights Foundation filed a friend of the court brief. You can read the brief here, and you can read the article here. Excerpt: The concept of corporate personhood is a perfectly sensible idea, … ...