Supreme Court Again Confronts Standing, Taxing Power In ACA Mandate Case

Mealey's (November 10, 2020, 2:22 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual mandate’s failure to produce revenue creates an injury, how the zeroing out of the tax affects precedent finding the tax as the basis for the law’s constitutionality, congressional intent in eliminating the tax and whether the provision can be severed from the law as a whole all came before the U.S. Supreme Court in Nov. 10 oral arguments (California, et al. v. Texas, et al, No. 19-840, Texas, et al. v. California, et al., No 19-1019, U.S. Sup.)....