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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 25, 2010

States and Citizens Let Suits Fly

Even as 14 states teed off high-profile lawsuits seeking to overturn the historic, nearly trillion-dollar health care reform bill moments after President Barack Obama signed it Tuesday, legal scholars pegged the effort as a long shot.

By Evan George

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Even as 14 states launched high-profile lawsuits seeking to overturn the historic, nearly trillion-dollar health care reform bill moments after President Barack Obama signed it Tuesday, legal scholars pegged the effort as a long shot. But some gave more favorable odds to a yet-to-be-filed lawsuit brought by a private citizen.

Since the House passed the bill by a dramatic 219-to-212 vot...

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