On August 2, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia rejected a request by the federal government to dismiss a constitutional challenge to a controversial new federal health care law. The decision was a clear victory for WLF, which had filed a brief in the case in support of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s constitutional challenge to the recently enacted Patient Protections and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a federal law containing an individual mandate that would require all uninsured Americans, under threat of civil penalty, to purchase health insurance for themselves and their dependents. In its brief opposing the federal government’s motion to dismiss, WLF relied on a recently announced test by the U.S. Supreme Court to argue that the PPACA’s individual mandate is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Necessary and Proper Clause.

Victory