March 10th, 2011

The Bloomsburg Business Week reports:

“The U.S. Justice Department is seeking an expedited appeal of a federal judge’s ruling striking down President Barack Obama’s health-care reform legislation.

Lawyers for the federal government today said in an e-mailed statement they are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta to speed its review of the Jan. 31 decision by U.S. District Judge C. Roger Vinson in Pensacola, Florida.

Vinson found unconstitutional the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provision requiring individuals to procure insurance coverage starting in 2014. Concluding that requirement couldn’t be severed from the rest of the legislation, the judge invalidated the entire measure.”

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