Supreme Court asked to review challenge to health reform law - The Hill's Healthwatch

The Obama Administration passes on its last chance to appeal the constitutionality question, thereby allowing the case to be appealed to the Supreme Court...

Case will probably be heard next June...

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Supreme Court asked to review challenge to health reform law

By Julian Pecquet - 09/28/11 07:29 AM ET

The plaintiffs in a multi-state challenge to Democrats' healthcare reform law on Wednesday formally asked the Supreme Court to take up the case during its upcoming term.

The petition for certiorari comes two days after the Obama administration let slip its final chance to delay the case. Two appeals courts have issued opposing rulings on the law's individual mandate, increasing the likelihood that the high court will decide to weigh in.

"While the survival of the new health-care law remains an open question, small businesses and individuals will continue to face uncertainty and trepidation, hesitant to hire or expand," Karen Harned, executive director of the Small Business Legal Center at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), said in a statement. "In filing our petition today, we are attempting to impress upon the Court the urgency of this issue."

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Supreme Court asked to review challenge to health reform law - The Hill's Healthwatch