Health Care Suit Reaches High Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - A conservative law firm has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the health care overhaul, challenging the first federal appeals court ruling that upheld President Obama's domestic initiative.
The appeal filed Wednesday by the Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Mich., said Congress overstepped its authority in requiring Americans to purchase health insurance or pay financial penalties. A divided three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rejected the center's argument in upholding the centerpiece of the law, the insurance requirement.
In addition to being the first appeals court ruling on the landmark law, the 6th Circuit's decision also was the first in which a Republican-appointed judge, Jeffrey Sutton, voted to uphold the law. President George W. Bush nominated Sutton.
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