November 10, 2020
Eagerly awaited oral arguments in a Republican-led legal challenge to the entire Affordable Care Act featured remarks from U.S. Supreme Court justices indicating that the case is likely doomed but might end up resolving a significant debate over when Americans have standing to challenge federal laws.
November 10, 2020
The Affordable Care Act seems likely to survive a Republican challenge at the Supreme Court after potential swing votes Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett Kavanaugh expressed skepticism Tuesday that a 2017 congressional change renders the entire statute unconstitutional.
November 09, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case challenging the Affordable Care Act, and while all eyes have been focused on whether conservative justices will strike down former President Barack Obama's landmark health insurance expansion, a critical provision governing biosimilars is also at stake.
November 06, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh the fate of the Affordable Care Act the week of Nov. 9 as President Donald Trump, facing electoral defeat, seeks to eliminate his predecessor's health care law. Read up on that case and more in Law360's high court preview.
November 06, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court arguments Tuesday over the Affordable Care Act's validity will feature two attorneys defending the landmark law and two attacking it, with each side boasting one veteran of high court oral advocacy and one newcomer to the hottest bench in the land.
October 02, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court comes back into session Monday to take on historic cases, including disputes over LGBTQ rights and the Affordable Care Act, but with only eight members following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and still closed to in-person attendance because of the coronavirus pandemic.
September 29, 2020
Democrats are understandably scared that Judge Amy Coney Barrett will vote to vaporize the Affordable Care Act if she joins the U.S. Supreme Court. But whether she'll actually do so, much less deliver a decisive fifth vote against the landmark law, is far from clear.
September 24, 2020
President Donald Trump on Thursday delivered a seemingly toothless promise to shield Americans with preexisting conditions, issued an ultimatum on legislation to curb surprise medical billing and unexpectedly announced he's mailing tens of millions of $200 drug discount cards just before the election.
September 22, 2020
The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has ignited new fears that the sudden opening on the bench might lead to the end of the Affordable Care Act in a closely watched case before the high court, but experts cautioned that the health insurance law's fate is far from sealed.
August 24, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to lengthen newly scheduled oral arguments in litigation over the Affordable Care Act's validity and allocated varying amounts of time to state attorneys general, the Trump administration and House Democrats who fought to participate.