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NH Federal court rejects health care lawsuit

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The Judicial Update


April 14, 2011

Concord, NH The United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire tossed out another lawsuit seeking to invalidate the federal governments healthcare restructuring. The suit was brought on by eighty-year-old Harold Peterson and was the first suit of its kind filed by a current recipient of Medicare. Peterson questioned the clause in the new health-care law that mandated that individuals have healthcare. The court rejected the case on the grounds that Peterson's medicare met the qualification, and he thus had no grounds to sue.[1]

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