The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected what it called an “unusual” challenge by West Virginia to the Obama administration’s decision in 2013 not to enforce certain Affordable Care Act provisions during a transitional period after the health care law’s enactment.
In West Virginia v. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, a unanimous three-judge panel, led by Judge Laurence Silberman, said the state had not suffered an “injury-in-fact” and so it lacked standing to challenge the administration’s decision to decline to enforce provisions that would have led to the cancellation of millions of health insurance policies that did not comply with the new law.
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