Posted on 03/29/2010 8:20:39 PM PDT by Elderberry
It's not as if they would be hit hard by the many doctors retiring there, bringing with them their retirement spending and increasing the population's average age. Oops, no, we just might have a strongly countervaling influence on that average age question after Commiecare kicks in with full effect!
The nerve of these Floridians battling against increased state sales tax revenue, reduced health care costs, reductions in the population's average age! /sarc
HF
I did notice in the complaint the States were asking for "declaratory and injunctive" relief. Not being a legal eagle, I don't know what that means. When going back to read it within context, I wasn't able to find it again. Still looking.
Not a legal eagle, either, but it appears to be the asking the courts for a “cease and desist” on the law, as there is a ton of money at stake.
Missed that; not that I would necessarily know what it means either.
From paragraph 9 on page 6:
9. Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the Act’s operation to preserve their respective sovereignty and solvency, and to protect the individual freedom, public health, and welfare of their citizens and residents.
Yup. Just saw they are asking for declare and injunct relief. Injunction.
I was impressed that they hit quite few parts of the law. Not just forcing a citizen to buy insurance and pay a tax but the burdens it puts on the states and their budgets.
The "shotgun" approach! Good idea to cover all the bases up front I suppose. Better chance of hitting on somehting that will blow it out of the water.
YES! Go Florida et al!
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declaratory is to declare the statute invalid for legal reasons to be stated and is faster than some other procedures (but not really); and injunctive is to stop it from operating pending the decision, but there needs to be initial paper work filed to request the immediate injunction to do that, and I haven’t seen the papers.
Uh huh! So have the States dropped the ball on emergency or immediate injunctive relief? Or can it be filed somewhere along the way during the process?
I thought the SCOTUS had original jurisdiction in matters concerning the States and the Federal Government.
The states are playing hard ball!!!
Good for them!! Time to rock and roll!!!
Some day I expect to hear, “As goes Florida, so does the country.” Instead of Caliguafornia!
hummmmm.....don’t think so....too many illegals of another nature there...we are getting surrounded you know!
Might not be a bad idea since the seniors there have got more brains in their little fingers than the whole population of California......if this nation’s course is going to turn we will need them more than ever before.
I taught my sons to tap the brains of the elderly because therein lays the real purposes of life, and volumes of information...a gold mine computers can never afford...now they are adults they continue to do so and said one of the best pieces of advice I ever gave them.
But unfortunately there is a chance that Obamacare can survive court challenge because of precedent set by Social Security challenges in the 1930s. Social Security was ruled constitutional because it was argued in court to be a tax and under the 16th Amendment this tax was authorized.
Therefore, should the worst nightmare occur and Obamacare survive court challenge, the momentum must shift to repealing the 16th, and in fact that should be the case in any event.
Did you count the states? 13 states on this lawsuit. Maybe our new U.S.A.
Yup, 13, just like the original colonies.
Reagan appointee or not, I can see this being punted for jurisdictional reasons, although IANAL.
The DemocRats will lose this case before the eyes of the American people. The health care bill is unconstitutional as is the President who is not a natural born citizen of the U.S.
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