January 12, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate brought by two health care groups, leaving intact a D.C. Circuit finding that the requirement to buy health insurance is not an illegal taking of private property.
March 07, 2014
The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected the latest legal argument against the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, saying Fifth Amendment protections against seizing private property aren't violated just because some consumers pay insurance premiums that effectively subsidize other policyholders.
January 10, 2014
Two medical groups on Friday told the D.C. Circuit that a lower court had erred in dismissing their Fifth Amendment challenge to the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, while a circuit judge told the U.S. government that its short briefing in the long-shot case appeared "arrogant."