Feds, States Take Obamacare Case to the Supreme Court

The Department of Justice and a group of 26 states have filed simultaneous petitions for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court as part of the states' constitutional challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The petitions seek review of a recent decision by the Eleventh Circuit. That decision held that the individual mandate portion of the Act was unconstitutional, but also upheld the constitutionality of the majority of the Act.