Scalia's absence haunts Supreme Court's new term

USA Today: WASHINGTON — Justice Antonin Scalia will be missing when the Supreme Court opens its 2016 term Monday, but his influence lives on in the cases the court has granted, denied and delayed.

Before Scalia's death in February, the justices agreed to hear some of the most controversial cases on its calendar affecting insider trading, class action lawsuits and government "takings" of private property. Those are issues the conservative jurist cared deeply about — but without his vote, the odds of his side winning are longer.

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