U.S. Citizens Association v. Kathleen Sebeliux

OPINION

JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.

In this opinion we return to constitutional challenges to the individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 1 U.S. Citizens Association and two of its members, Maurice A. Thompson, and James Grapek (“plaintiffs”), 2 challenge the constitutionality of the individual mandate, which requires each individual to purchase a health insurance policy providing a minimum level of coverage or make a shared responsibility payment. 26 U.S.C. § 5000A (2010). The district court dismissed plaintiffs’ constitutional challenges to the…