A Florida Federal Judge Monday ruled the Healthcare Reform Law’s mandate to purchase health insurance unconstitutional. The decision is the second such decision ruling that the law is unconstitutional, the former decision being passed by a Virginia judge. Two other decisions in similar lower federal courts have been rendered in favor of the law’s constitutionality.

The legal battle is expected to be ongoing, and reach high levels of the federal judiciary system, perhaps even the Supreme Court.

Stay tuned for more.

UPDATE: Justice Roger Vinson went beyond the last ruling that struck down just the individual mandate, saying that the requirement was not separable from the whole of the law and therefore the entire law is void.

His opinion reads: “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”

Read the whole verdict here.

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