As of 11:50 p.m. on November 1, 2011, the City and County of Denver Coordinated Election results were in. By a margin of 66,719 votes (64.02%) against to 37,498 votes (35.98%) in favor, Ballot Initiative 300 – the Denver Paid Sick and Safe Time Ordinance, failed.
I wrote about this proposed new legislation that
I previously blogged in March 2011 on the 1-year anniversary of health care reform. At that time, the 5 principal cases challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act had moved from the district courts to the federal Courts of Appeals. Currently, these cases are almost fully briefed, and 2 of them have been argued.
As we await these
As the first anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act approaches (it was signed into law March 23, 2010), 5 district courts across the nation have addressed the constitutionality of this controversial piece of legislation (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida (PDF); U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan (PDF)