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PLF files final brief in Sissel's challenge to Obamacare

December 20, 2013 | By PAUL BEARD

Today, PLF attorneys filed Matt Sissel’s final brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals litigation challenging Obamacare.  Sissel’s reply responds to the Government’s opposition brief, filed on December 9. Now, we await an oral argument date, which we expect to be set in the coming months.  Stay tuned! … ...

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Obamacare headed for U.S. Supreme Court again

November 26, 2013 | By CHRISTINA MARTIN

The diagnosis is getting worse for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – Obamacare. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood Corp. v. Sebelius. Both cases challenge Obamacare’s mandate that employers pay for health insurance plans that give employees coverage for ...

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PLF's Obamacare appeal receives support from House members and others

November 12, 2013 | By PAUL BEARD

On Friday, Matt Sissel received significant support in his Origination Clause challenge to Obamacare, currently pending in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Forty members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Congressman Trent Franks, filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in support of Sissel’s appeal.  A ...

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U.S. House members to support Sissel appeal against Obamacare

November 05, 2013 | By PAUL BEARD

On Friday, November 8, thirty-eight members of the United States House of Representatives will file an amicus brief in support of our appeal in Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, currently pending in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.  On September 13, fourteen Congressmen notified the Court of their intent to file an ami ...

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Challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

March 24, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, the attorneys general of fourteen states filed two lawsuits in federal district courts in Florida and Virginia, challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Florida suit, brought by 13 attorneys general, raises a number of constitutional claims agai ...