WLF’s brief in Virginia v. Sebelius (one of the constitutional challenges to the federal health care reform law) was headlined yesterday in a post by Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy. Professor Somin was the principal author of WLF’s brief in support of Virginia’s motion for summary judgment, which argued that neither the Commerce Clause nor the Taxing Clause authorizes Congress to punish an individual’s decision not to buy health insurance. WLF filed an earlier brief at the pleadings stage arguing that the individual mandate is not authorized under the Necessary and Proper Clause.
Fourteen constitutional law professors joined the brief:
- Jonathan Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- George Dent, Case Western University School of Law
- Michael Distelhorst, Capital University Law School
- James W. Ely, Jr., Vanderbilt University Law School
- Elizabeth Price Foley, Florida International University College of Law
- David Kopel, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- Kurt Lash, University of Illinois College of Law
- David N. Mayer, Capital University Law School
- Andrew Morriss, The University of Alabama School of Law
- Leonard J. Nelson III, Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law
- Stephen B. Presser, Northwestern University School of Law
- Ronald J. Rychlak, University of Mississippi School of Law
- Steven J. Willis, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Todd J. Zywicki, George Mason University School of Law