Thomas More Law Center v. Obama

Petition for certiorari denied on June 29, 2012

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
11-117	6th Cir.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2011

Issue: (1) Whether Congress acted within its constitutional powers in passing the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act; and (2) whether the individual mandate provision of the Act is unconstitutional as applied to the individual petitioners who lack health insurance.

SCOTUSblog Coverage

The health care grants: In Plain English (Amy Howe, November 17, 2011)
Health care: Now, it's the Court's turn (Lyle Denniston, November 10, 2011)
Petition of the day (Joshua Matz, August 12, 2011)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
07/26/2011	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 29, 2011)
08/22/2011	Order extending time to file response to petition to and including September 28, 2011.
08/24/2011	Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation and Matthew Sissel filed.
08/25/2011	Brief amici curiae of Mortimer Caplan & Sheldon Cohen filed.
08/26/2011	Brief amicus curiae of HR Policy Association filed.
08/29/2011	Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed.
09/28/2011	Brief of respondents Barack H. Obama, President of the United States, et al. filed.
10/06/2011	Reply of petitioners Thomas More Law Center, et al. filed.
10/26/2011	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 10, 2011.
06/25/2012	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 28, 2012.
06/29/2012	Petition DENIED.

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