The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review a divided panel’s “blinkered view” that subsidies are not available to individuals who buy health insurance on federally created exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

The department’s request in Halbig v. Burwell came less than 24 hours after the challengers in King v. Burwell filed a petition in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to review the opposite ruling by a unanimous Fourth Circuit three-judge panel.

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