Tuesday, March 20, 2012

At Heart of Health Law Clash, a 1942 Case of a Farmer’s Wheat

"If the Obama administration persuades the Supreme Court to uphold its health care overhaul law, it will be in large part thanks to a 70-year-old precedent involving an Ohio farmer named Roscoe C. Filburn.

Mr. Filburn sued to overturn a 1938 federal law that told him how much wheat he could grow on his family farm and made him pay a penalty for every extra bushel." [NY Times]

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