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Halbig v Burwell
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Global Policy Watch
The Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act: Round Two
In what many consider to be an unusual move, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a high-stakes case about the legality of premium subsidies for low- and moderate-income individuals enrolling…
Management Memo
ACA Update: DC Circuit Stays Halbig, Upholds Accommodation for Contraceptive Coverage
Our colleague Stuart Gerson of Epstein Becker Green posted “DC Circuit Stays Halbig Action Pending SCOTUS Review of King, Upholds Accommodation for Contraceptive Coverage” on the Health Law Advisor blog.…
Health Care and Life Sciences
Halbig v. Burwell – En banc oral argument scheduled for December 17
As you may recall, a DC Circuit panel held that the Affordable Care Act makes federal premium tax credits available to taxpayers only in States where the State has established…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Judge Strikes Subsidies for Health Insurance Purchasers on Federal Exchanges
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolJudge Ronald A. White (E.D. Okla.) ruled today in Oklahoma v. Burwell that the IRS rule providing subsidies for individual purchasers of health insurance on…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ornstein on Statutory Interpretation and Halbig
Norm Ornstein reviews Second Circuit Chief Judge Robert Katzmann's new book, Judging Statutes, over at The Atlantic. Along the way, Ornstein says why courts should use legislative intent in interpreting…
Employee Benefits Blog
Full D.C. Circuit to Rehear ACA Premium Tax Credit Case
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has vacated the 2-1 panel decision issued July 22, 2014, in Halbig v. Burwell, which struck down the Internal Revenue Service…
Health Law
State-Based Health Insurance Exchanges: What Does The Future Hold?
Last Thursday, state-based health insurance exchange executives gathered in Chicago to reflect on their experiences establishing their respective exchanges. While these executives were meeting, the full D.C. Circuit Court announced…
The Right Coast
Harry Reid’s Court-Packing Scheme Pays Off In Halbig Case
But because the current administration recognized this court as critical in future legal challenges to Obamacare, they wanted to and hypocritically did shift the balance of the court in a…
Health Care and Life Sciences
DC Circuit Will Rehear Halbig
By Stuart Gerson As we noted in our various blogs and communications on the subject (HEAL Advisory and HEAL Blog), the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit to Rehear Obamacare Challenge
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe full D.C. Circuit today agreed to rehear Halbig v. Burwell, in which a three-judge panel of the court previously struck the IRS rule…