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Opportunity
February 27, 2018

What Janus Means for Massachusetts

In downtown Boston Monday there was a rally of a few hundred public union members, with a speaker roster that included U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, among many other elected officials.  The reason was that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...
Pioneer Legal
February 26, 2018

Supreme Court Arguments in Compulsory Union Fee Case Set for Today

Outcome will affect similar petition pending before Massachusetts SJC Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case with important implications for Massachusetts in which an Illinois public employee is challenging the requirement that he pay an “agency fee” to...
Opportunity, Pioneer Legal
October 11, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Arguments in Janus v. AFSCME

Pioneer Institute Signed onto Amicus Brief Urging Court to Accept Case BOSTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, a case involving an Illinois public employee who sued the defendant claiming that being compelled to...
Healthcare
July 12, 2012

Massachusetts Tackles Health-Care Reform (Again)

http://www.governing.com/blogs/politics/gov-massachusetts-tackles-health-care-reform-again.html Now that the Supreme Court has closed the book on the first phase of health-care reform with its decision to uphold President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Massachusetts is poised to kick off phase 2 — and like...
Healthcare
July 5, 2012

Spinning the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision

http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/spinning_the_supreme_courts_he.php?page=all In the days before and after the Supreme Court’s decision, spin doctors were hard at work peddling their experts, positions, and takes on what might happen, and then what did happen and what might happen next. This is all to be...
Healthcare
July 1, 2012

Column: Supreme Court issues another head-scratching decision

http://www.eagletribune.com/opinion/x1483813422/Column-Supreme-Court-issues-another-head-scratching-decision In a nutshell (literally): In Kelo v. City of New London, five nutty justices ruled that government can take property from private owners who resist selling their homes and small businesses, and give it to private developers as part of a...
Healthcare
June 28, 2012

Previous rulings stir skepticism of Supreme Court's ability to resolve major issues

http://www.salemnews.com/opinion/x1058723505/Previous-rulings-stir-skepticism-of-Supreme-Courts-ability-to-resolve-major-issues I’d try to make an intelligent guess about what the Supreme Court will do about Obamacare, if not for the court’s 2005 Kelo decision. In a nutshell (literally): In Kelo v. City of New London, five nutty justices ruled that government...
Healthcare
March 27, 2012

The Other Federal Takeover

http://www.cato.org/blog/other-federal-takeover Right now the nation is fixated on the Supreme Court and health care, as well it should be. If the Court rules the wrong way and the individual mandate is upheld, seemingly the last limit to federal power—Washington can’t make you buy...
Healthcare
March 25, 2012

Policy prescription: States' fights

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/apageofbooks/s_788030.html#axzz2NcwhEhqG If the U.S. Supreme Court — where oral arguments begin Monday — overturns  ObamaCare, states should become laboratories for reform; if it’s upheld, states’  design of their insurance “exchanges” still will be important and should reflect  each state’s demographics and health...
Healthcare
March 22, 2012

The main event

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201203191500–tms–cthomastq–b-a20120320mar20,0,5228636.column Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear three days of oral arguments in the healthcare lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.” We now know the law was based on...