{"id":16556,"date":"2012-11-26T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16556"},"modified":"2012-11-26T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:38:24","slug":"liberty-case-advances-by-going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16556\/liberty-case-advances-by-going-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Case Advances by Going Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16520\/overturn-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">I blogged here<\/a> about the decent prospects for several remaining court challenges to ObamaCare. One of those cases I mentioned was that of Liberty University. Today, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the Fourth Circuit to be reconsidered &#8212; which, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2012\/11\/way-cleared-for-health-care-challenge\/#more-155562\" target=\"_blank\">ScotusBlog explains<\/a>, is a step forward for the case, by keeping it very much alive.<\/p>\n<p>Summary paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;\">The Supreme Court on Monday <\/span><a style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/112612zor_f204.pdf\">arranged<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;\"> for a Virginia university to go forward with new challenges to two key sections of the new federal health care law \u2014 the individual and employer mandates to have insurance coverage.\u00a0 The Court did so by returning the case of <\/span><em style=\"border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;\">Liberty University v. Geithner<\/em><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;\"> (docket 11-438) to the Fourth Circuit Court to consider those challenges.\u00a0 The Court last Term had simply denied review of Liberty University\u2019s appeal, but on Monday wiped out that order and agreed to send the case back to the appeals court in Richmond for further review.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;\">This is very good news to those of us who believe in liberty &#8212; and, of course, for Liberty, too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I blogged here about the decent prospects for several remaining court challenges to ObamaCare. One of those cases I mentioned was that of Liberty University. Today, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the Fourth Circuit to be reconsidered &#8212; which, as ScotusBlog explains, is a step forward for the case, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3947,35,3667,92],"class_list":["post-16556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-liberty-university","tag-obamacare","tag-scotusblog","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}