By: Gray Rohrer
| Posted: January 12, 2011 3:55 AM
A controversial bill that would place a constitutional amendment on the ballot -- allowing the state to opt out of the individual mandate portion of the federal health-care law passed last year -- cleared another hurdle in the Senate Tuesday.
The lawsuit challenging the federal health care law enacted this spring is likely to proceed after a federal judge in Pensacola said Tuesday that he was leaning toward letting at least some of the claims by several states against the administration continue.
Florida takes center stage this week in the fight over the federal health-care law that consumed Congress for the better part of a year, and along with it, so will a Pensacola judge who is no stranger to hot-button issues.
