Virginia's Bid for Fast Track Review of the Health Care Law

So, tomorrow the Supreme Court goes on their annual 3-month vacation. When do they expect to rule on the Healthcare Act? There are a slew of dates from May 10, 2010 through Sept. 2012. Anyone want to bet they'll push it off until after the 2012 election? 

The U.S. Supreme Court declined an opportunity to review President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, rejectingVirginia’s bid to have its challenge to the law considered on an unusual fast-track basis.

Virginia, one of 28 states suing to invalidate the measure, urged the justices to schedule arguments without waiting for the four appeals courts that are poised to consider the law. The states say Congress overstepped its authority by requiring Americans to either obtain insurance or pay a penalty.

The rebuff doesn’t preclude the Supreme Court from hearing the case later, perhaps even before the 2012 election. For the time being, today’s action is a victory for the Obama administration, which urged the justices not to grant Virginia’s bid for a hearing.

“Expediting our case would have been the exception and so, although disappointing, this is not surprising,” Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, said in a statement. He had said in court papers that the dispute was “of imperative national importance requiring immediate determination in this court.”