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Lawyers cram for epic review before Supreme Court justices

3 days of arguments to take place on Obama’s health care law

By Adam Liptak

 |  New York Times  

  March 26, 2012

The three days of Supreme Court arguments that start Monday on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law will be a legal marathon, and the lawyers involved have been training. Last week, there were so many of the mock arguments that lawyers call moot courts that they threatened to exhaust something that had never been thought in short supply: Washington lawyers willing to pretend to be Supreme Court justices.

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