Baldwin, et al. v. Sebelius, et al., No. 10-56374 (9th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseSteve Baldwin and the Pacific Justice Institute challenged the constitutionality of the so-called "individual mandate" provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119, which would take effect in 2014. Baldwin objected to this provision but failed to allege that he did not have qualifying health insurance or that he would not have it in 2014. The Institute also objected but failed to allege that the "individual mandate" applied to it or that it had enough employees to be subject to the analogous "shared employer responsibility" provision. Therefore, neither Baldwin nor the Institute had shown injury in fact, or a genuine threat of prosecution, sufficient to give them standing or making their challenge justiciable. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's dismissal of the complaint.
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