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No Decisions Yet On The Most-Anticipated Supreme Court Cases

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By Mark Memmott

Published June 10, 2013 at 8:31 AM MDT

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An artist's sketch of the scene during a U.S. Supreme Court hearing earlier this year.

There's no big news again today from the U.S. Supreme Court 鈥� which is sort-of big news in itself because it means we're still waiting for the justices' decisions on these major cases:

-- Fisher v. University of Texas, .

-- Shelby County v. Holder, in which the issue is and the 1965 Voting Rights Act should no longer apply to that Alabama county.

-- and , two potentially landmark cases on gay marriage.

Those cases were not among the by the court Monday. The next day on which decisions are due to be announced is Thursday.

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