Supreme Court 2011 Term

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The Supreme Court 2011 Term began in October 2011 and is scheduled to complete in June 2012.

Key cases include:

  • ObamaCare
    whether the individual mandate requiring nearly every adult to purchase health insurance is constitutional
    whether that provision may be severed from the remainder
    whether the Medicaid expansion is constitutional
  • a challenge to the Arizona immigration law
  • the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act
  • whether a prison sentence of life without parole for a crime committed by a 14-year-old is constitutional
  • whether criminal defendants have a constitutional right to cross-examine the person who tested the DNA upon which the prosecution relies