Government, Appellees Tell 5th Circuit ACA Must Fall Absent Mandate Penalty

Mealey's (May 2, 2019, 2:29 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Individuals and states challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have sufficient injury for standing and properly demonstrated that the law is unconstitutional in the absence of the individual mandate penalty, the federal government and two other parties told a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals May 1 (Texas, et al. v. U.S.A., et al., No. 19-10011, 5th Cir.)....