Mealey's (April 28, 2020, 11:03 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 24 denied a petition for en banc rehearing without poll, leaving stand a panel ruling that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is spending clause legislation that acts as a contract and cannot support emotional distress damages (Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller PLLC, et al., No. 19-10169, 5th Cir.)....