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U.S. Supreme Court

Mar. 29, 2012

Health care law hangs by a thread

The future of the controversial law mandating that nearly every American obtain health coverage appeared to be hanging by a thread following two hours of heated debate in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.


By Robert Iafolla


Daily Journal Staff Writer


WASHINGTON - The future of the controversial law mandating that nearly every American obtain health coverage appeared to be hanging by a thread following two hours of heated debate in the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.


Perennial swing vote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as the most likely candidates to join the four center-left justices to uphold the mandate...

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