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Unheard Voices Of Domestic Violence Victims: A Call To Remedy Physician Neglect, Nat Stern, Karen Oehme, Ember Urbach Apr 2013

Unheard Voices Of Domestic Violence Victims: A Call To Remedy Physician Neglect, Nat Stern, Karen Oehme, Ember Urbach

Scholarly Publications

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Health Care Cost Containment: No Longer An Option But A Mandate, Susan Adler Channick Mar 2013

Health Care Cost Containment: No Longer An Option But A Mandate, Susan Adler Channick

Nevada Law Journal

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Cost Control And The Affordable Care Act: Cramping Our Health Care Appetite, Barry R. Furrow Mar 2013

Cost Control And The Affordable Care Act: Cramping Our Health Care Appetite, Barry R. Furrow

Nevada Law Journal

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Death Panels And The Rhetoric Of Rationing, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard Mar 2013

Death Panels And The Rhetoric Of Rationing, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard

Nevada Law Journal

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Introduction: Under The Knife: Health Law, Health Care Reform, And Beyond, Stacey A. Tovino Mar 2013

Introduction: Under The Knife: Health Law, Health Care Reform, And Beyond, Stacey A. Tovino

Nevada Law Journal

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Nfib V. Sebelius: Proportionality In The Exercise Of Congressional Power, David Orentlicher Jan 2013

Nfib V. Sebelius: Proportionality In The Exercise Of Congressional Power, David Orentlicher

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With its opinion on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the U.S. Supreme Court sparked much discussion regarding the implications of the case for other federal statutes. In particular, scholars have debated the significance of the Court's recognition of an anticoercion limit to the Spending Clause power.

When it recognized an anticoercion limit for the ACA's Medicaid expansion, the Court left considerable uncertainty as to the parameters of that limit. This essay sketches out one valuable and very plausible interpretation of the Court's new anticoercion principle. It also indicates how this new principle can address a long-standing problem …


The Anti-Leveraging Principle And The Spending Clause After Nfib, Samuel R. Bagenstos Jan 2013

The Anti-Leveraging Principle And The Spending Clause After Nfib, Samuel R. Bagenstos

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This Article offers an initial assessment of the Supreme Court’s Spending Clause holding in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (NFIB), which addressed the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. As Justice Ginsburg pointed out, NFIB marks “the first time ever” that the Court has held that a spending condition unconstitutionally coerced the states. The implications of that holding are potentially massive, and some of the language in the decision, if read broadly, would seriously threaten the constitutionality of a broad swath of federal spending legislation. Notwithstanding some of the Court’s language, this Article contends that the case …