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savalez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-10 03:43 PM
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Florida voters can’t strip down Obama health-care bill, judge rules
Source: Yahoo News / CSM

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a ballot initiative that sought to amend the state’s constitution to establish that Florida residents have a right to refuse to purchase mandatory health insurance – including under President Obama’s reform effort.

The state high court voted 5 to 2 to exclude the referendum issue from the November ballot.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/323146



Misleading, ambiguous, Flying under false colors. No shit. If it comes from PubTards what do you expect?
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greiner3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-10 05:10 PM
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1. Woo-hoo;
However, where were these bozos in 2000?
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-10 05:26 PM
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2. The Florida Supreme Court ruled correctly every time in 2000
It wasn't the Florida Supreme court that gave us Bush* and the Cabal.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-10 09:28 PM
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3. Another win for Big Insurance. nt
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-10 02:29 AM
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4. Well federal laws usually trump
Edited on Thu Sep-02-10 02:29 AM by Q3JR4
state laws.

I expect the supremes will rule the same way if the issue comes before them.

How they'll rule on the "health care" (read insurance reform) law itself is another question altogether.

Q3JR4.
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