With Supreme Courts Decision to Hear ObamaCare Challenge the Federal Health Care Law is closer to an end.&"

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Texas Challenge to Federal Health Care Law Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Given the substantial implementation costs associated with this 2700-page law -- and the unconstitutional mandate that it will impose on all Americans -- we are pleased that the Supreme Court has moved quickly and agreed to hear this very important case" said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott earlier today following the Supreme Courts announcement it has decided to hear Texas challenge to the Federal Health Care Reform Law. With the Supreme Courts decision to hear our challenge to ObamaCare the federal health care law is closer to an end. " As the federal district court and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in this very case the federal government exceeded the constitutional limits of its authority by requiring all Americans to buy government-approved health insurance" said Abbott. Earlier this year on May 24th 2011 Texas Attorney General Abbott and 13 other states filed an Amicus Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that challenges the constitutionality of the federal health care law. The brief was in support of the legal challenge to Federal Health Care Law as part of a 14-state coalition supporting the plaintiffs in Seven-Sky v. Holder. That case argues that individual mandate is unconstitutional The states amicus brief in Seven-Sky v. Holder explains that the laws individual mandate which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance as a condition of lawful residence in the United States violates the Constitution. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is an extraordinary law that rests on unprecedented assertions of federal authority pushing even the most expansive conception of the federal governments constitutional powers past the breaking point" the brief states" said Abbott & other states Attorneys General in the brief. The federal government embraces a sweeping view of the Commerce Clause…that would imperil individual liberty render Congresss other enumerated powers superfluous and allow Congress to usurp the general police power reserved to the States." In March 2010 the states filed their own legal challenge to the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Three months later in June Seven-Sky v. Holder was filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The states amicus brief supports a legal challenge filed by Susan Seven-Sky and four other plaintiffs. Although the states challenge prompted a federal judge in Florida to declare the federal health care law unconstitutional the district court ruled against the Seven-Sky plaintiffs. As a result they appealed their case to the federal court of appeals and thestates brief yesterday supports the Seven-Sky plaintiffs appeal. The states that joined Texas in the amicus brief are:

1.  Alabama
2.  Florida
3.  Indiana
4.  Kansas
5.  Maine
6.  Michigan
7.  Nebraska
8.  North Dakota
9. Ohio
10. Pennsylvania
11. South dakota
12. Washington and
13. Wisconsin