# Constitutionality of the Slaughterhouse Rule

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**Created:** [March 19, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constitutionality-of-the-slaughterhouse-rule/533031 "2010-03-19T16:40:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/constitutionality-of-the-slaughterhouse-rule/533031/2 "2010-03-19T16:49:59Z")

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In a sister thread in this forum, **Whack-a-mole** dug up some cites on this matter.

> [@Explain to me what I'm missing re: health care reconciliation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-to-me-what-im-missing-re-health-care-reconciliation/532053/59):
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> Apparently the courts have looked at it and it is legal.
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> [Public Citizen v US District Court for DC](http://openjurist.org/486/f3d/1342/public-citizen-v-united-states-district-court-for-the-district-of-columbia) (2005 Circuit Court case)
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> [FIELD et al. v. CLARK, Collector](http://openjurist.org/143/us/649) (1892 US Supreme Court case)
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> Summary can be found at the link below:

I am not a lawyer, so I can’t really judge the merits of the arguments, but it looks like the process is (probably) legal, if not palatable.

Here is the sister thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555409&page=2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555409&page=2)

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