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11808 Wolf Run Lane
Clifton, VA 20124
WASHINGTON D.C.
1050 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20036
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3210 South Gilbert Road
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Chandler, AZ 85286
Telephone: (202) 466-6937
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On May 12, 2010, Attorneys for the United States Citizens Association (USCA) and
two individual plaintiffs (James Grapek and Maurice Thompson) filed suit challenging
the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L.
No. 111-148, H.R. 3590). The suit contends that the federal government has no constitutional
power to compel citizens to purchase a particular product with after tax dollars.
No such power exists in Article One of the United States Constitution under the
Commerce Clause (U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8, cl. 3). The suit also contends that the
mandatory requirement violates the freedom of association protected by the First
Amendment (U.S. Const. amend. I) by forcing Americans to obtain unwanted insurance;
violates the liberty provision of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause (U.S.
Const. amend. V) by forcing Americans to buy a product, insurance, that they wish
not to buy; and the right to privacy protected as a liberty right under the First,
Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments because it compels them to divulge confidential
health information to an insurer against their will. Review the pleadings below.