How did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals rule on whether the Affordable Care Act could survive without the individual mandate?

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In August 2011, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the severability of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by reversing a lower court's decision that the entire law was unconstitutional. While the district court had previously declared the individual mandate non-severable from the rest of the act, the Eleventh Circuit panel disagreed, effectively ruling that the ACA could survive without the individual mandate.1