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Posted at 2:52am on Dec. 28, 2007 Court rejects San Francisco insurance mandates; Governor's plan next?
By Neil Stevens
US District Judge Jeffrey White threw out part of a San Francisco law this afternoon, one that required employers to provide or pay for medical insurance for employers. White ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) preempts and prohibits the states from imposing such requirements on employers.
Ordinarily I wouldn't care, because San Francisco is such a freaky place, and if a conservative worried about every bad bill passed there, he'd never sleep. But this is important because Governor Schwarzenegger's plan for all of California includes a similar requirement, and thus could also be illegal under ERISA.
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