Highlights of the three remaining cases the Supreme Court is expected to decide Monday at its last public session until October:

Republicans concerned about the Obama administration’s big spending on economic stimulus, energy and health care are asking, “Where are the jobs?”

Gov. Ted Strickland said Saturday the Republican-controlled Senate rejected his proposal to erase Ohio’s $3.2 billion budget deficit, dealing a strong blow to the already diminishing chances the spending plan would be finished on time.

The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands says he was late in submitting an $854 million budget because of the strain on the local economy.

Dayne Morris eats out less, cooks at home more. He hunts for online bargains and shops at discount stores. So when will he start spending freely again? “When I get a promotion,” says Morris, 24, a business consultant in Washington, D.C., “and the economy turns around.”

Federal officials are again delaying a decision on whether to list sage grouse in 11 Western states as threatened or endangered, leaving in limbo until at least 2010 a spate of industries that face sweeping restrictions if the bird is protected.