TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge in New Jersey has dismissed a lawsuit brought by two men who sought to block the federal health care reform law.
In a ruling made public Thursday, U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson said Nicholas Purpura and Donald Laster Jr. lacked standing to challenge the measure.
The pair filed the lawsuit themselves in September. It claims the 2010 federal law should be overturned because it violates numerous provisions in the U.S. Constitution as well as federal statutes.
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