March 23,  2010

            LANSING -  Attorney General Mike Cox joined Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and 11 other Attorneys General to file a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the constitutionality of the H.R. 3590, the health care reform bill signed into law today by President Obama.  The lawsuit was filed today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida.

"Never before in our history have you had to buy something as the price of citizenship," said Cox.  "This is an unprecedented overreach by Congress and the President. There are limits to what Congress can force the individual and the state to do, and this bill exceeds those limits."  

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