High Court won't hear two religion cases

By PETE YOST and MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 47 minutes ago

The Supreme Court returned to work Monday by sidestepping two church-state cases that social conservatives had hoped the justices would use to chart a rightward course.

The justices decided not to consider a challenge by religious groups to a New York law requiring health plans to cover birth control pills, and a California case in which an evangelical group was denied use of a public library for religious services.