Mealey's (December 17, 2018, 1:27 PM EST) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge in Texas said striking the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual mandate renders the entire law unconstitutional under Supreme Court precedent. The Dec. 14 ruling throws the law in doubt just as the window for enrollment closes for 2018 and means that the law is likely headed back to the Supreme Court (Texas, et al. v. U.S.A., et al., No. 18-167, N.D. Texas)....