The U.S. Supreme Court has tapped two veteran high court advocates to brief and argue two key issues in the blockbuster challenges to the new federal health care law.

The justices, in an order issued last week, invited H. Bartow Farr III of Washington’s Farr & Taranto to defend the ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the law’s minimum insurance coverage requirement — the so-called individual mandate — is severable from the rest of the law. Farr, a former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist and a former assistant to the solicitor general, has argued 30 cases in the Supreme Court.

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