Bachmann got off to a good start, declaring that even if the supreme court upholds the law, in what she called "one of the most important consequential decisions it will ever make," the battle is not over.
22 December 2009: Appeals court upholds Guede's conviction, cuts sentence to 16 years.
We hope to achieve this in small but meaningful ways, through the stories we tell, the treasures we share … We believe that nurturing a better tomorrow upholds the yesterday we cherish, for all of us.
But the university said it upholds rigorous admissions procedures to ensure all students are given equal opportunities, regardless of disability.
Roberts put it to Verrilli that if the court upholds the legislation then "all bets are off", and that Congress would have virtually unlimited power to force people to buy products in the name of the collective good.
If the Supreme Court upholds the federal law, says Mr Thurston, the Utah Health Exchange would not be derailed, but its adoption would remain limited to small business.
As they read the first amendment, he told me, it upholds the right of students in schools or universities to pray if they want to, but it rules out compulsory prayer, or anything else that involves the state using coercive power to back up a particular religious belief.
The decision upholds legislation passed by Congress last autumn that was written to clarify the law, but the issue may end up yet again in the Supreme Court.The Democrats failed to break a Republican filibuster in the Senate that would have allowed a vote on a resolution criticising George Bush's policy in Iraq.
If it upholds those bans, the Supremes could hear the case late in the winter and issue a decision possibly a historic one next June.Before that, they have plenty of other thorny problems to settle.
The former prime minister claimed it was a political stitch-up and wants to appeal against the verdict; his punishment will not take effect unless a higher court upholds the conviction.
If the appeals court upholds the judgment, issued last June by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the case is likely to go to the US Supreme Court, and it is anyone's guess what that court's nine justices would do.
