Court Hears Arguments Over Emotional Distress Damages In ACA Discrimination Case

Mealey's (November 30, 2021, 12:18 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the underlying anti-discrimination statutes from which it borrows put a federal funding recipient on notice of the potential for emotional distress damages or whether such damages are more akin to punitive damages and must be clearly imposed by Congress came before the U.S. Supreme Court during oral arguments on Nov. 30....

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