U.S. Court of Appeals Strikes Down Individual Mandate Provision of Affordable Health Care Act

ATLANTA—(ENEWSPF)—August 12, 2011.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11^th Circuit in a 2-1 decision struck down the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Health Care Act siding with 26 states that challenged it.

Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge Joel Dubina, who authored today’s opinion was joined by Judge Frank Hull in the majority.  Judge Stanley Marcus voted against the states.

“The individual mandate exceeds Congress’s enumerated commerce power and is unconstitutional,” Dubina wrote.…