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Update: You can read the arcive of our chat by clicking below. You are invited to participate in a live to join Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys for a special live chat session at 12:00 PM PDT on August 4, 2010. This is an opportunity to speak with us about our recently filed commerce clause challenge … ...

Pacific Legal Foundation is pleased to announce its new “NO to Government Mandated Health Care” bumper stickers and t-shirts! PLF is currently litigating against the national health care mandate on behalf of Matt Sissel, a former Iraq war medic and now a small businessman in Iowa City, Iowa.  Show your support for Matt and for … ...

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Author:  Paul J. Beard II My essay, entitled "ObamaCare v. the Constitution," appears in the current issue of The Objective Standard, an excellent quarterly journal of culture and politics.  Written with the layperson in mind, the essay describes the primary legal defects with Obamacare in the context o ...

Prof. Kevin Walsh thinks opponents of the Individual Mandate should have found a sympathetic client. How about PLF client Matt Sissel? A decorated Iraq War veteran (a Medic, incidentally) as well as an entrepreneur and a talented artist, Matt started a business to sell portraits and other artwork. He doesn’t buy health insurance because it & ...

The American Spectator has an article today about our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare on behalf of Matt Sissel. As author David Catron notes, Obamacare, “a law filled with a myriad of new taxes — contains not a single word written in the only legislative body permitted by the Constitution to pass bills for … ...

The latest issue of The Texas Review of Law & Politics has appeared. It includes my article, “So It’s A Tax, Now What? Some of The Problems Remaining After NFIB v. Sebelius,” in which I make the argument that if the Individual Mandate penalty of Obamacare is interpreted as a tax, as the Supreme Court … ...

Readers of the Liberty Blog will recall when Prof. Timothy Jost—perhaps the most prominent defender of Obamacare in the legal academy—acknowledged that among its other provisions, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a board of “Platonic Guardians” for medicine. That board is called the Independent Payment Adviso ...

Today, we filed an appeal of the D.C. District Court’s decision last Friday to dismiss our challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Readers may recall that our client, Matt Sissel, challenges the Act’s provision imposing an individual mandate and tax-penalty based on last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the healthcare case. There, th ...