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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

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

Lol @ "Virginia, the sole plaintiff", a corporate entity of sorts, constitutes "anyone" who lacks the ability to challenge the law

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

Not... really. I think the state of Virginia has distinctly different interests than each of its individual citizens interests rolled into one.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

Virginia is not the only state to have taken this to court. Multiple district courts have decided for one side or the other.

[a-new-machine.livejournal.com]

In different cases, though. Virginia is the sole party to this particular case, thus it's not really something worth commenting on. If a man shoots two different people, we do not say that the victims of both shootings' estates are parties to the same case if they choose to file separately, in different jurisdictions.

[yahvah.livejournal.com]

Still don't see how this crafty crap of yours gets us from Virginia being a member of the union capable of challenging something which is so obviously and blatantly unconstitutional to anyone with a rational mind to "Virginia has no standing to challenge the United States".