Nine State Attorneys General to Back Health Care Act
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Attorneys general of New York, California, Connecticut and six other states will ask a U.S. appeals court to uphold a federal judge’s finding that President Barack Obama’s health-care reform legislation is constitutional.
The attorneys general for California, Oregon and Iowa said they and their six colleagues will file an appellate brief backing U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh’s Oct. 7 ruling in a lawsuit filed in Detroit by the Thomas More Law Center, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.