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[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Federal appeals court blocks state lawsuit over health care reform law

...the three-judge panel concluded Thursday the state lacks the jurisdictional authority to challenge the 2010 law.

A separate lawsuit by private Liberty University also was rejected on similar grounds.

This leaves the question of who the hell does have standing?

The Richmond-based court becomes the second such federal court to uphold the constitutionality of ...

The court ruled on technical grounds, not the larger constitutional questions...

Who is worse, the reporter that writes self-contradicting articles, or the editor who lets it through to print?

I can't put my opinion on here, because I'm asking questions I don't actually know the answer to.

Comments

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

That's impermissible. As discussed in the full opinion, the states have no right to act as parens patriae, only the United States does, and so they cannot bring a suit on behalf of their affected citizens.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

It shouldn't be impermissible is the point.

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Well, there you're arguing against just another area of standing law that doesn't agree with you, and law that's as rooted in the Constitution as the injury-in-fact requirement (the Court finds the parens patriae restrictions in the Supremacy Clause's necessary implications). So... *shrug*