Judge: States May Intervene In Suit Challenging ACA Individual Mandate

Mealey's (May 18, 2018, 1:59 PM EDT) -- DALLAS — Seventeen states seeking to protect the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) may intervene into 20 other states’ suit alleging that the elimination of the ACA individual mandate’s penalty makes the mandate itself unlawful under U.S. Supreme Court precedent and leaves the states with an “unconstitutional and irrational regime” that must be eliminated, a federal judge in Texas held May 16 (Texas, et al. v. U.S.A., et al., No. 18-167, N.D. Texas)....

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