Ex Parte William Henry Wenzel v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a condition that triggers a tax is not necessarily a \legal command\ to take a certain action
• holding that “the shared responsibility payment may for constitutional purposes be considered a tax, not a penalty”
• holding that Congress “had the power to impose the exaction in § 5000A under the taxing power”
• holding that a provision labeled a penalty is a valid exercise of Congress’s taxing power despite the label
• holding that the individual mandate is a penalty in the context of the Anti- Injunction Act and a tax in the context of the Constitution
• holding that Medicaid expansion under “Obanlacare” exceeded the bounds of the spending clause by excessively “coercing” the states

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).