{"id":960,"date":"2011-10-10T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2011-10-10T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:17:56","slug":"960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"LU Petitions US Supreme Court To Review ObamaCare Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University says it has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court&#8217;s dismissal of its lawsuit challenging the Obama administration&#8217;s health care law.<\/p>\n<p>The university and two individuals claim the law&#8217;s requirement that citizens buy health insurance or pay a penalty is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that the penalty is a tax that cannot be challenged until it is paid and the taxpayer seeks a refund. Liberty attorney Mathew Staver announced the appeal Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli also is appealing the 4th Circuit&#8217;s dismissal of his lawsuit challenging the law. The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to review an Atlanta-based appeals court&#8217;s ruling striking down the insurance mandate.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wset.com\/story\/15657444\/lu-asks-supreme-court-to-review-health-care-ruling\" target=\"_blank\">WSET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University says it has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court&#8217;s dismissal of its lawsuit challenging the Obama administration&#8217;s health&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=960\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LU Petitions US Supreme Court To Review ObamaCare Lawsuit<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sJcR0-960","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}