Ruling Against Health Care Law Evens Scorecard at 2-to-2

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/us/01ruling.html

Federal Judge Rules Health Law Violates Constitution
By KEVIN SACK
Published: January 31, 2011

A second federal judge ruled on Monday that it was unconstitutional for
Congress to enact a health care law that requires Americans to obtain
commercial insurance, evening the score at two-to-two in the lower courts as
conflicting opinions begin their path to the Supreme Court.

Unlike a Virginia judge in December, Judge Roger Vinson of Federal District
Court in Pensacola, Fla., concluded that the insurance requirement was so
essential to the workings of the Affordable Care Act that its
unconstitutionality required that the entire Obama health care law be
invalidated.

“The Act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and
reconstructed by the watchmaker,” Judge Vinson wrote.

The judge declined, however, to immediately enjoin, or suspend, the law
pending appeals, a process that could take two years. That left confusion
about how the ruling might be interpreted in the 26 states that are parties
to the legal challenge.

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