Legal battle over Obama’s health-care law moves to Atlanta courtroom

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Source: The Washington Post

The multi-pronged legal battle over President Obama’s health-care law moves to an Atlanta courtroom Wednesday, where a three-judge appellate court panel will hear oral arguments in a suit brought by Florida and 25 other states challenging its constitutionality.

The case before the U.S. Court of Appeals of the 11th Circuit will be the fourth to reach the mid-level stage of a legal marathon widely expected to end in the Supreme Court.

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed since the Affordable Care Act was adopted in March of last year, according to the Department of Justice.

Appellate court panels in Richmond and Cincinnati have already heard arguments in three of the suits over the past several weeks, including a case filed separately by the state of Virginia. Attorneys in a fifth challenge, brought by private parties in New Jersey, are to present before the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia on June 23.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/legal-battle-over-obamas-health-care-law-moves-to-atlanta-courtroom/2011/06/07/AGdnZyLH_singlePage.html

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The judges hearing this lawsuit:
- Chief Judge Joel F. Dubina (George H.W. Bush)
- Stanley Marcus (Clinton)
- Frank M. Hull (Clinton)

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