The Cockle Bur Blog
Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
Cockle Printing’s Healthcare Litigation Forum
Today Cockle Printing posts two briefs filed in cases related to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: David R. Riemer and Community Advocates have filed their Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners on the Minimum Coverage Question in DHHS v. Florida, No. 11-398; and The Petitioners have filed their Reply Brief in Seven-Sky [...]
In defense of substantive due process
A lot of conservatives, and some libertarians, have made a point of attacking or ridiculing the legal theory of substantive due process. I think a lot of these criticisms are misleading, unfair, or misinformed—and I think that substantive due process is a valid legal theory, and one that is central to our [...]
Cockle Printing’s Healthcare Litigation Forum
Certain members of the United States Senate have filed their Brief as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners on the Issue of Severability in NFIB v. Sebelius, No. 11-393, and Florida v. DHHS, No. 11-400, and you can read it at the Cockle Printing website.
Cockle Printing’s Healthcare Litigation Forum
Healthcare Litigation Briefing Schedule
We have started filing briefs in the healthcare litigation cases, so I have reposted here Katie Collister's excellent discussion of the Court's scheduling order: Finally...A Briefing Schedule! Last night the Supreme Court, in a rare departure from traditional practice, adopted a formal briefing schedule in the three vided Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases. [...]
Cockle Printing’s Healthcare Litigation Forum
Freedom Watch has filed its Amicus Brief on the Issue of Recusal or Disqualification of Justice Kagan in NFIB v. Sebelius, No. 11-393, and Floriday v. Dept. of Health and Human Services, No. 11-400, and you can read it at the Cockle Printing website.