1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i UPDATED: District Court Strikes the Individual Mandate and Declares the Affordable Care Act Invalid: What Happened and What Lies Ahead? Updated March 7, 2019 UPDATE 3/7/2019: In December 2018, the distric
2、t court in Texas v. United States issued a partial final order and stayed its judgment pending appeal. The Department of Justice and the intervening state plaintiffs subsequently appealed the lawsuit to the U.S Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit also granted motions filed by t
3、he U.S. House of Representatives and four additional state attorneys general to intervene in the litigation and defend the validity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Separately, in February 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland rejected the State of Maryla
4、nds request (discussed below) for a declaration that the ACA is constitutional and enforceable and dismissed the case. The original post from December 20, 2018, follows below. On Friday, December 14, 2018, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled in Texas
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