Legal battle over Obama’s health-care law moves to Atlanta courtr

ATLANTA — Lawyers for the 26 states challenging the constitutionality of the nation’s new health-care law squared off against the Obama administration in an appeals court in Atlanta on Wednesday, where a panel of three judges asked tough questions of both sides.

One judge, Frank M. Hull, appeared more sympathetic to the law — at one point interrupting an attorney for the states to tell him that his central argument “doesn’t get me very far.”