Topic: U.S. Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court will hear evidence challenging President Barack Obama's health care reform -- which has come under fire from Republicans -- over three days in March, a spokeswoman said Monday.A ruling against the landmark legislation, The Affordable Care Act, would ...

Obama asks Supreme Court to rule on health care

President Barack Obama's administration Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to rule on his landmark health reforms, seeking to halt a flurry of conservative legal assaults on the new law.Health care reform passed in 2010 fulfilled decades of Democratic dreams but was ...
The Obama administration said Tuesday it would not ask a US appeals court to reconsider its finding that part of the landmark health reform bill is unconstitutional.Legal observers said the decision makes it likely that the legal challenge to the health care ...

Obama healthcare law headed for Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president's signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.A Justice Department spokeswoman said it ...

Court tosses Virginia challenge to healthcare law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court handed President Barack Obama a victory for his signature healthcare law on Thursday, ruling against challenges by the state of Virginia and others seeking to invalidate the law as unconstitutional.The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Analysis: Healthcare ruling and what it means

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An appeals court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama's healthcare law on Friday, leaving a mark on constitutional law, the healthcare industry, U.S. politics and U.S. states.The court ruled as "unconstitutional" the law's requirement that individuals buy health ...

US appeals court upholds Obama's health care law

President Barack Obama won a legal victory in the battle over his controversial health care law Wednesday when a federal appeals court in Ohio upheld the constitutionality of a key provision.It was the first ruling at the appeals court level in the ...

Supreme Court refuses health care law appeal

The Supreme Court, the judicial authority of last resort, declined to hear the case brought by Steve Baldwin and the Pacific Justice Institute, which had filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging the new massive health care law.The plaintiffs asked the court ...

Virginia, government square off over healthcare

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - The state of Virginia and the government were pitched in a legal battle in a federal courtroom on Thursday that could lead to the undoing of the massive healthcare reform law passed three months ago.Judge Henry Hudson of ...

U.S. defends health reform against legal challenges

The Obama administration has previewed its initial line of defense in what has become a stream of lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the federal health system reform law. The administration said the mandate requiring most Americans to obtain ...
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