Federal judge tosses out sweeping health care

[LuLu]

Federal judge tosses out sweeping health care reform act

A federal judge in Florida has tossed out the sweeping health care reform law championed by President Barack Obama, setting up what is likely to be a contentious Supreme Court challenge over the legislation in coming months.


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If he ruled that the unconstitutionality voided the entire act. Then Obama gives direction to move forward, he is in Contempt of Court!

[Patty]

I guess he has really stepped into one of his own problems now. See if he can fix that one now. He opens up his mouth and makes to many mistakes here lately. Seems like some one isn't helping him like they use to be.

[Hoosier Hillbilly]

Life and careerBorn in Cadiz, Kentucky, Vinson attended the United States Naval Academy and graduated in 1962 with a bachelor's degree in engineering. He served at Naval Air Station Pensacola as a naval aviator from 1962–1968, attaining the rank of lieutenant. After his service, he attended Vanderbilt University and received his J.D. in 1971.

Returning to Pensacola, Florida, Vinson joined the law firm of Beggs & Lane, where he practiced general civil law from 1971–1983. He was nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1983 to a seat vacated by Lynn C. Higby, was confirmed by the Senate on October 4, and received his commission a day later. Among the notable cases he has presided over:

Four defendants of abortion clinic bombing, 1985[1]
Escambia County, Florida ordinance banning The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988[2]
Shoney's $134 million race discrimination settlement, 1993[3]
Paul Jennings Hill (federal Clinic Access Law charges), 1994[4]
Sentenced Financial Manager Marcus Schrenker, who attempted to fake his own death by parachuting out of his plane after charges were brought against him for securities fraud, to four years in federal prison in 2009.[5]
Vinson was chief judge from 1997 to 2004. He assumed senior status on March 31, 2005.

He was appointed to serve a seven-year term on the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court, effective May 4, 2006.[6] In 2009 he was installed as president of the American Camellia Society.[7]

In 2010, Vinson was assigned to hear a case, Florida et al v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, brought by a group of 26 states that was filed with support by 22 attorneys general and four governors challenging the constitutionality of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), specifically its requirement that most individuals obtain medical insurance. The suit is the second of more than 15 lawsuits filed against the act that has advanced to this stage of litigation.[8] On January 31, 2011, Vinson ruled that the individual mandate provision of the PPACA violated the Constitution by regulating economic inactivity, and as the mandate is not severable the entire statute was ruled unconstitutional. Vinson allowed the law to stand while it is being appealed by the Obama administration.[9]

I just new he was a Ky. boy right off! & a old'school one @ that!
He grew up in NO_MANS_LAND, don't 'U' know?
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