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U.S. Supreme Court

Mar. 21, 2009

S.F. Restaurant Owners Seek Stay In Health Care Case

San Francisco restaurant owners asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a recent 9th Circuit decision that allowed the city to go ahead with its controversial plan to tax local businesses in order to fund universal health care.

By Lawrence Hurley
Daily Journal Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - Restaurant owners in San Francisco asked the U.S. Supreme Court this week to stay a recent 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that allowed the city to go ahead with its controversial plan to fund universal health care through taxes on local businesses.

The 9th Circuit held in a Sept. 30 decision that the city's plan is not pre-empted by the federal law that governs employee benefit...

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