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Health Law Survives Test in Court of Appeals
By John Schwartz New York Times  November 8, 2011

A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the Obama administration’s health care law on Tuesday in a decision written by a prominent conservative jurist.

The decision came as the Supreme Court is about to consider whether to take up challenges to the Affordable Care Act, a milestone legislative initiative of the administration.

Of four appellate court rulings on the health care law so far, this is the third to deal with the law on the merits, and the second that upholds it. More.. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/health/policy/appeals-court-upholds-health-care-law.html