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Author: Daniel Himebaugh Fox News' On the Record has posted this video, in which attorneys representing Utah, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana discuss their impressions of Tuesday's hearing on the motion to dismiss the states' suit against the new federal health care law. PLF is representing Matt Sissel, an Iowa City business owner, in a ...

The federal district court yesterday granted PLF’s motion to file our amended complaint in Sissel v. HHS, our case challenging the constitutionality of the “tax” on not having health insurance. As my colleague Paul Beard explains in this video, Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision in the NFIB v. Sebelius case this summer rec ...

Property Rights — Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States We had a major win earlier this week when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the United States could be liable for a taking after it systematically and regularly flooded trees belonging to the State of Arkansas for a number of years, destroying millions … ...

I’ll be speaking as part of the Cato Institute’s forum, “Beyond the Individual Mandate: The Ongoing Legal Challenges to Obamacare” on Thursday, February 7, at 4 pm in Washington, D.C. I will speak about our case, Sissel v. HHS, and some of the issues that I raise in my forthcoming article, “So It’s A Tax…No ...

I’ll be speaking tonight to the El Dorado Hills Tea Party Patriots about ongoing litigation against Obamacare. The meeting is at 7 pm at the Holiday Inn, 4630 Town Center Boulevard. It’s open to the public. Please stop by! … ...

This afternoon at 4 pm Eastern Time, 1 pm Pacific, I’ll be participating in a forum at the Cato Institute about ongoing legal challenges to Obamacare. I’ll be talking about our Origination Clause challenge, Sissel v. HHS. On the panel with me are the Goldwater Institute’s Christina Sandefur, who’ll talk about the IPAB case, ...

If you missed Thursday’s Cato Institute policy forum on ongoing litigation against Obamacare, you can watch it online here. … ...

Our friends at Florida’s James Madison Institute have published my article, “Is The PPACA’s Tax Constitutional?” in the latest issue of their Journal. You can read it online here (page 40). In it, I talk about our lawsuit on behalf of Matt Sissel, challenging the Individual Mandate provision of Obamacare that the Supreme Co ...

The Washington Times has an article here about our lawsuit, Sissel v. Department of Health & Human Services. You can learn more about the case here and here. … ...