Government: Jurisdiction Ruling Moots Liquidators’ Appeal In ACA Assets Case

(March 22, 2017, 2:37 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A judge’s finding that she lacks jurisdiction over a suit involving the proper handling of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) assets moots an insolvent insurer’s liquidators’ interlocutory appeal challenging a ruling denying them a preliminary injunction, the government told the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 17 (Nick Gerhart, et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 16-3477, 8th Cir.)....