**US District Court for the Northern District of California previously declared the challenge moot and dismissed the case in September 2021.**.
A US appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration challenging the legality of health care subsidies provided under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, saying the dispute was moot..
The lawsuit was filed in 2018 by the Trump administration, which argued that the subsidies were illegal because Congress had not specifically appropriated funds for them. A US District Court for the Northern District of California previously declared the challenge moot and dismissed the case in September 2021..
The Biden administration, which inherited the case, agreed with the district court’s ruling and asked the appeals court to affirm the dismissal. The Trump administration, however, continued to defend its challenge..
In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the district court was correct to dismiss the case. The majority opinion, written by Judge William Fletcher, said that the case was moot because the Trump administration had failed to show that it was likely to suffer any future harm if the subsidies were upheld..
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