By Porter Wright on A fall over the dreaded fiscal cliff has been avoided—at least for now. Unless pre-occupied by New Year's revelry or college football bowl games, all of us are well, and perhaps painfully, aware that Congress managed to by-pass the dreaded fiscal cliff by passing a tax relief bill on January 1, 2013.… Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The table now is set for the last chapter in our long (and, to many, excruciating) debate over the constitutionality of the health care reform legislation enacted in 2010. At a conference last Thursday, November 10, the members of the United States Supreme Court voted to consider an appeal of one of the lower court decisions dealing with the constitutionality of the landmark legislation.… Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The Obama administration was faced with a deadline to ask for an en banc review by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of a decision that declared the health care reform legislation's individual mandate unconstitutional. Under applicable court rules, such a request had to be filed by Monday, September 26. A decision to seek such a review would have caused further delay, and very likely would have delayed the timing of a decision on the legislation by the Supreme Court until after the 2012 national elections.… Continue Reading
