Michigan is one of a number of states which are actually suing the Federal government over the new Health Care law. In addition an Ann Arbor legal center (it's relatively conservative- I think Tom Monaghan helped set it up) is suing the Federal government over the individual mandate.

Two things come to mind
a) Can states actually sue the Federal government. Do they have standing to do so? Federal law is supreme, yes?

b) Given that the individual mandate doesn't go into effect until 2013-2014 , I think, can someone actually sue before the objectionable part of the law kicks in? Again, would someone really have standing?

I would expect both of these suits to be dismissed... Mike Cox joins lawsuit

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.