The presidential election and the U.S. Supreme Court may have secured the linchpin of the federal health care reform law — the mandate to purchase insurance — but the litigation beat goes on.

On December 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear two nonprofit colleges’ appeal that their challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage provisions should be allowed to go forward. The influential appellate court’s ultimate ruling could set the tone for how other courts handle the roughly 40 cases around the country making similar legal arguments.

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