Mark your health wonk calendars: the Supreme Court will take a possible first step on the health reform?s constitutional challenges on Nov. 10. More on what that means from the ever-insightful SCOTUSblog, which broke the news this morning:

The Supreme Court will take its first look at the challenges to the new federal health care law at its Conference on Thursday, November 10.  Five of the six pending petitions (the sixth is not ready yet) were distributed to the Justices? chambers on Wednesday, for consideration at that private session.  Although a grant of review is not assured, that is highly likely, since all sides agree that the Court should take on the controversy, and the constitutionality of a key provision of the new law has been decided differently by federal appeals courts.

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