Legal Opinion
State v. United States
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided March 5, 2018No. Civil Action No. 7:15–cv–00151–OPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reed O'Connor, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
This case is about the lawfulness of a tax in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA") and of a regulation that the United States Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") uses to implement it. The ACA imposed a tax on medical providers but exempted the states from paying it. Notwithstanding Congress's direction in the ACA, the HHS regulation effectively requires the states to pay this tax. Plaintiffs now challenge both the tax and the regulation. Because Plaintiffs have standing to challenge both, the Court must decide the…
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