The American Center for Law and Justice has filed a second brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, this time arguing against the individual mandate in the federal health reform law.

A Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization says that the federal health reform should be declared unconstitutional because it is cannot function without the individual mandate, which the group also argues is unconstitutional.

Attorneys general from 11 states and Washington, D.C., have filed court papers in the federal health reform law case, arguing that the individual mandate forcing all Americans to buy health insurance, starting in 2014, is constitutional.

If you like political theater, chaos, confusion and upheaval, mark your calendars now for late June. In the most important courtroom in the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on whether President Barack Obama‘s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional in late June.

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department issued final rules for its medical loss ratio, declining the request of insurance agent trade groups and state insurance regulators to exempt agent and broker compensation.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not address Virginia’s appeal of the federal health reform law during a scheduling conference Nov. 22.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to address a petition by an auto insurance company over a West Virginia ruling preventing it from retaining private medical records used against it in a civil suit.

Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to decide the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ironically, it offers few protections and actually increases the cost of care), what can the country expect when the justices render an opinion in late spring?

The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the federal health reform law, focusing itself on the individual mandate, with an expected ruling by June 2012.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., ruled 2-1 in favor of the constitutionality of the individual mandate, a key provision in the federal health reform law.