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Federal judge dismisses challenge to health care reform act

April 22, 2011 08:16:49 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [HR 3590 materials; JURIST...

April 21, 2011 01:28:50 PM

Idaho Governor CL "Butch" Otter (R) issued an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in the state. Executive Order 2011-03 bars "every executive...

March 15, 2011 09:21:41 AM

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief with the Supreme Court Monday urging the court not to take a case challenging the constitutionality of the 2010 health care reform law [HR...

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DOJ appeals Florida health care ruling

March 9, 2011 10:14:13 AM

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday appealed a ruling in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida declaring the health care reform law ...

March 4, 2011 08:46:58 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Thursday granted the Obama administration's petition to stay his previous order declaring the health care reform law [HR 3590;...

March 1, 2011 09:37:11 AM

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief with the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Tuesday asking the court to overturn a December decision by...

February 23, 2011 09:31:29 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that Congress acted within its constitutional powers in passing the health care reform law and that the law...

February 18, 2011 10:28:02 AM

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday asked federal judge Roger Vinson to clarify his ruling to require states to enact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act during the...

February 9, 2011 02:07:17 PM

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli on Tuesday filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the US Supreme Court asking the court to rule on the constitutionality of the...

February 5, 2011 03:07:13 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the health care reform law . Judge Keith Starrett ruled that...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

UK parliament rejected J.S. Mill's proposal to give women the vote

On May 20, 1867, the British Parliament rejected by 196-73 an amendment to the 1867 Reform Act presented by John Stuart Mill that would have permitted women to vote. Review Mill's 1869 work The Subjection of Women.

Supreme Court applies Free Exercise Clause to state governments

On May 20, 1940, the United States Supreme Court held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment applied to state governments in Cantwell v. Connecticut under the incorporation doctrine, which applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to state governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learn more about the Incorporation Doctrine from the Cornell Law Schools' Legal Information Institute.