Pennsylvania District Court holds individual mandate provision of Patient Provision and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional.

The constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act under the Commerce Clause may come before the United States Supreme Court later this term. A District Court in Pennsylvania recently joined those holding the individual mandate unconstitutional, which means that the Third Circuit may get into the debate before the Supreme Court settled the split among the circuits.

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