Five days before a federal judge in Virginia struck down part of the law, a federal judge in Newark, N.J., dismissed a constitutional challenge to the Obama administration’s health care reforms, finding claims by a doctors’ organization and a representative patient were speculative, therefore they lacked standing.
The suit, New Jersey Physicians Inc. v. Obama, 10-cv-1489, was filed on March 24, a day after President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The main plaintiff, a 1,600-member nonprofit advocacy group, charged that by forcing people to buy health insurance, the law violated the Commerce Clause.
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