Religion The Standoff Between Church and State Eases at School Despite three church-state cases on its docket, the Court made little new law in this area.

The second of the chief justice's major opinions came in an important church-state case, Locke v. Davey.

The other church-state case the court accepted Tuesday will provide its first examination of a four-year-old federal law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

The decisions still to come include several of the term's most important, including the much-watched Pennsylvania abortion case and a major church-state case involving prayer at a public school graduation.

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, one of the most important church-state cases in the last decade.

Louisiana provides a contentious church-state case.

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in an important church-state case, one that will decide how much leeway states have in declining to finance religion.

But Justice Kennedy's vote could be decisive in an important church-state case.

It's striking how closely the positions of some of the justices in the church-state cases correspond to their own religious and educational backgrounds.

A1 The Justices may soon take up another church-state case.