Feds, States Take Obamacare Case to the Supreme Court

By Kevin Fayle on September 29, 2011 | Last updated on March 21, 2019

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.
Feds, States Take Obamacare Case to the Supreme Court
Copied to clipboard