Mealey's (June 12, 2015, 12:33 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 7, 2014, affirmed dismissal of two plaintiffs’ claims challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s individual mandate on privacy grounds, challenging a new Medicare payment advisory board as unconstitutional and challenging preemption of Arizona’s Health Care Freedom Act as preempted by the ACA (Nick Coons, et al. v. Jacob L. Lew, et al., No. 13-15324, 9th Cir.).

(Opinion available. Document #93-140820-005Z.)

Nick Coons and Eric N. Novack, M.D., an...