The Regime doesn't like this

Another Blow: Ohio Supreme Court Strikes Down Liberal?s Obamacare Suit


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? Opponents of a federal health care overhaul scored a key legal victory on Friday that should clear a proposed ballot measure for a fall vote.

The chance for voters to reject portions of insurance changes championed by President Barack Obama will appear Nov. 8, alongside a ballot issue seeking to repeal a contentious re-write of Ohio?s collective bargaining law. One is expected to bring out Republican-leaning voters and the other is expected to bring out Democrats in a state closely divided along political lines.

In a unanimous decision Friday, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a liberal policy group?s lawsuit challenging certification of the so-called Health Care Freedom Amendment on the grounds petitions carrying 69,000 signatures were flawed.

ProgressOhio executive director Brian Rothenberg argued that Secretary of State Jon Husted counted signatures on petitions that contained technical errors, including the way paid circulators listed their employment.

Husted, a Republican, argued the challenge revolved around petitions carrying extra information, a practice government should not discourage.
Justices said the secretary of state is ?entitled to deference.?

They found that Rothenberg?s charges lacked legal merit, noting ?even if his challenge had substantive validity, Rothenberg?s evidence is insufficient to establish that the part-petitions do not have enough signatures.?

Backers of the measure lauded the decision. Ohioans for Healthcare Freedom campaign manager Jeff Longstreth said it will allow ?voters to have a choice this fall if healthcare decisions should be made by patients and doctors or politicians in Washington, D.C.?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/another-blow-ohio-supreme-court-strikes-down-liberals-obamacare-suit/

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Well folks here's another black eye for Obama...(you won't be able to see it..but it's there)

The regime isn't liking this...This is a serious setback for Obamacare...this was the fuel that was going to run the socialized health care system.....

The government can't force the citizens to buy a product.

Here's a liberal lie....wasn't it supposed to be free Health care for everyone...??? The liberals fall for this kind of stuff every time.

Federal Appeals Court Rules: Individual Mandate is Unconstitutional

ATLANTA (The Blaze/AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties.

(More: Read about the Ohio Supreme Court’s ruling on a liberal Obamacare lawsuit)

The divided three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the so-called individual mandate, siding with 26 states that had sued to block the law. But the panel didn’t go as far as a lower court that had invalidated the entire overhaul as unconstitutional.

The states and other critics argued the law violates people’s rights, while the Justice Department countered that the legislative branch was exercising a “quintessential” power.

The decision, penned by Chief Judge Joel Dubina and Circuit Judge Frank Hull (a female), found that “the individual mandate contained in the Act exceeds Congress’s enumerated commerce power.”

“What Congress cannot do under the Commerce Clause is mandate that individuals enter into contracts with private insurance companies for the purchase of an expensive product from the time they are born until the time they die,” the opinion said.

Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus disagreed in a dissent.

The 11th Circuit isn’t the first appeals court to weigh in on the issue. The federal appeals court in Cincinnati upheld the government’s new requirement that most Americans buy health insurance, and an appeals court in Richmond has heard similar legal constitutional challenges to the law.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/federal-appeals-court-rules-individual-mandate-is-unconstitutional/