Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s healthcare reform law and its individual mandate earlier this year. In September, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia tossed out Ms. Cuccinelli’s lawsuit, ruling he cannot legally challenge the individual mandate because the provision does not impose any obligations on the state itself.
Legal experts surmise the high court may wait until it reaches a ruling on another healthcare reform challenge it already agreed to hear. That challenge was filed by 26 states led by Florida. In August, an Atlanta federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that Congress overreached its authority to regulate commerce and therefore cannot require Americans to buy health insurance. The court ruled the rest of the healthcare law constitutional.
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