A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that San Francisco employers must support the city’s new universal health care plan after all, setting aside enforcement of a judge’s ruling that the mandate violated federal law, noting that the city has a strong likelihood of winning its appeal of the lawsuit challenging the plan brought by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. That’s great news for the city and residents who don’t have health insurance, and one more indication that the Ninth Circuit is still a holdout against the federal courts’ shift to the right. The appeal will be heard this spring on an expedited schedule.