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l Insomeeditions, anOct. 7Page One article describing the per-
spective of U.S. troops in south- ern Afghanistan misstated the time of day when a recent road- side bomb attack occurred. The attack late last month occurred at night, not in the morning.
l An article in the Oct. 3 Maga- zine about buying wine misstated
the distributor of the Italian wine Palazzo dellaTorre. It is distribut- ed by Leonardo LoCascio of Winebow, not by Jorge Ordoñez Selections.
l Alisting ofpumpkinpatches in the Oct. 1 Weekend section in-
cluded an incorrect price for pumpkins at Gaver Farm in
Mount Airy. The farm’s pumpkins cost 49 cents a pound, not 40 cents a pound.
l An Aug. 15Metro article about a man challenging Maryland’s
gun-control laws in the wake of two landmark Supreme Court de- cisions incorrectly said that in 2002 there were 4,405 Maryland residents with active permits to carry handguns. Actually, that was the number of permits issued that year by Maryland State Po- lice. The total number of active permits in 2002, which the state says is not available, would be much higher. As the article point- ed out, as of July 31 of this year, there were 47,471 active permits in the state.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010 Judge:Health-care lawis constitutional Theplaintiffs, threepeople and
‘Individual mandate’ ruling is victory
for administration BY N.C. AIZENMAN
A federal judge in Michigan
ruled Thursday that the new health-careoverhaul lawis consti- tutional, rejecting an argument that Congress lacked the power to require the legislation’s “individu- almandate,”which orders virtual- ly all Americans to purchase healthinsurance. Other federal courts have al-
ready dismissed some challenges to the lawon technical grounds— ruling, for instance, that theplain- tiffslackedstanding.However, the decision issued Thursday by Judge George CaramSteeh of the EasternDistrictofMichiganis the first to reject a claimbased on the merits,marking a notable victory for theObama administration.
the Thomas More Law Center, a nonprofit public interest lawfirm in Ann Arbor, had objected to be- ing compelled to choose between buying health coverage that they donotwantorpayingataxpenalty that, they argued, would go into the nation’s general fund and couldenduppayingforabortions. They further argued that be-
cause the decision not to buy in- suranceisaformof inactivityrath- er than an economic activity, it is not covered by the clause of the Constitution that grantsCongress the power to regulate interstate commerce. However, Steeh found that “far
from ‘inactivity,’ by choosing to forgo insurance, plaintiffs are making an economic decision to try to pay for health-care services later, out of pocket, rather than now through the purchase of in- surance, collectively shifting bil- lionsofdollars . . .ontoothermar- ketparticipants.”Therefore,Steeh ruled, regulating this decision
In Calif., seeking clues to whale’s death
fallswellwithin the scope of Con- gress’s authority to regulate the healthinsurancemarket. The judge also echoed the ad-
ministration’s contention that un- less young and healthy people are requiredtopurchasecoverage, the pool of those who are insured would be skewed toward the sick, making it impossible for insurers tocomplywithprotectionssuchas the law’s prohibition on discrimi- nating against those with preex- isting conditions. “The court found that themini-
mum coverage provision of the statute was a reasonable means for Congress to take in re- forming our health-care system,” said Tracy Schmaler, a spokes- woman for the Justice Depart- ment. “The department will con- tinuetovigorouslydefendthis law inongoing litigation.” Robert Muise, the law center’s
senior trial counsel, said he plans to appeal. But he added that de- spite the loss, he is pleased that Steeh sidedwith himand the oth-
er plaintiffs on their standing to file the suit, the ripeness of their claim and whether they have a right to a court determination of Congress’s authority to write the legislation. “The case is framedquitenicely
since the judge ruled in our favor on [those issues]. So really the main question is whether or not Congresshasexceededitsauthori- ty under the commerce clause, and I like our chances before the U.S. Court of Appeals of the 6th Circuit,”he said. The case is one of 15 to 20
lawsuits challenging some aspect of the health-care law, according to a JusticeDepartment estimate. Among themostprominent are
a suit filed by 20 states in federal court in Florida and a similar suit filedby the stateofVirginiabefore a federal judge there. They raise similar arguments as those in the Michigan suit but alsomount ad- ditional constitutional objections to the law.
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a time in the early 20th century when there was a huge marriage gap.” The finding, based on data
from the U.S. Census Bureau, comes as part of a broader analy- sis of the reversal of the college marriage gap. Once, the popular notion was
that going to college delayed the age of marriage. Now, across the population, the typical age for marriage is 28, both for thosewho complete higher education and those who don’t take that path or in some cases don’t finish. Probing the trend, researchers
found that much of this shift has been driven by a declining likeli- hoodof marriageamongmenand women without college degrees. “Young adults today believe
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