Two by two

Judiciary | The high court opens its first full term under John Roberts by taking on key social-issue cases | Lynn Vincent

As the reconstituted cast of the Supreme Court heads into its first full term Oct. 2, cases involving hot-button sociopolitical issues began arriving on the docket in pairs. Before last week's Sept. 25 "mega-conference," in which the justices sorted through cases awaiting orders, they had already agreed to review a pair that will test the federal ban on partial-birth abortion, along with two that turn on the use of racial quotas in public-school admissions.

Then on Sept. 26, the high court announced it had selected nine new cases from the stack of 1,900 that had piled up since its last major conference in June, including another flashpoint pair: Davenport v. Washington Education Association (WEA) and Washington v. Washington Education Association, cases involving the political use of union fees.

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