A US federal judge has ruled that a multi-state challenge to the healthcare reform law can move forward.
The ruling was widely expected—Judge Roger Vinson, a Reagan appointee—had indicated that he would likely dismiss parts of the suit, while allowing other counts to go to trial.
Filed by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on the same day President Obama signed the sweeping and controversial bill into law, the suit was joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington.
Today's ruling almost certainly means that the legal challenges to the regime's "signature policy accomplishment" will wind up before the United States Supreme Court.
Last Thursday, a federal judge in Michigan upheld the individual mandate's constitutionality in a separate lawsuit filed by the nonpartisan Thomas More Law Center. But in August, a federal judge in Virginia refused the Justice Department's request to dismiss Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's lawsuit.
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