Virginia Attorney General Urges Supreme Court to Hear Health Care Challenge

February 3, 2011

Virginia: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wants his lawsuit against the federal healthcare law to go right to the Supreme Court of the United States. Cuccinelli stated that he plans to file a motion that will bypass an appeals court. In December he won a federal judge's ruling against the law's requirement that most Americans must buy health insurance.

Cuccinelli stated that the case should go directly to the high court as it might be ruled unconstitutional, thus sparing states and companies the expenses a law like this would have normally incurred.

After split rulings in four separate federal lawsuits, the law is expected to appear before the Supreme Court soon.

The Justice Department will be appealing the Virginia decision, saying Thursday that the challenge should follow the ordinary path through an appeals court.