Appeals court rules ACA’s individual mandate unconstitutional, asks lower court to decide whether rest of law can stand without it

The decision, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, directs a Texas district court to reconsider a central legal question in the case: whether parts of the law may be separated so that the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that most Americans carry health insurance could be invalidated while […]