The Affordable Care Act Cases - The Severability Question

Submitted by mgruhn on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 14:11

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The third question the Court will hear in its review of the Affordable Care Act concerns whether the individual mandate provision is legally severable from the rest of the law. Prof. Steve Heyman provides a primer on the question.

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