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March madness is coming to the Supreme Court next year. The Supreme Court justices have designated three days, March 26 to March 28 as the oral argument dates for the health care cases.LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The main event will be on Tuesday, March 27, when the Court will take up the constitutionality of the health care law's minimum coverage requirement. Called the individual mandate, marc jacobsthe stipulation requires that virtually all Americans purchase health insurance -- or pay a penalty. The court has allotted two hours for argument over whether Congress' passage of the individual mandate exceeded the legislature's powers to regulate interstate commerce or lay and collect taxes under Article I of the Constitution.The Court will hear an hour of argument On Monday, March 26, over whether a Reconstruction-era federal statute, the Anti-Injunction Act, bars the justices from making a decision on the individual mandate's constitutionality until after the provision goes into effect in 2014.The Court will consider two additional issues on Wednesday, March 28. Ninety minutes will be dedicated to whether the individual mandate is so crucial to the health care overhaul that the entire law must fall should the justices find the mandate itself unconstitutional.marc jacobs bagsAn additional hour of argument will address 26 states' claim that the law improperly expands Medicaid by coercively conditioning states' receipt of federal funds on their participation in the new health care exchange system.The days of argument will occur almost exactly two years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act. The legislation has sparked a slew of lawsuits across the country. The four courts of appeals to consider the issues now before the Supreme Court have split on the constitutionality of the individual mandate and the application of the Anti-Injunction Act, marc jacobs bags cheapbut have all rejected the challengers' arguments about state coercion and the centrality of the individual mandate.The justices' decision in the health care cases will likely come down at the end of June.