The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to review a closely watched equal-pay challenge but added five new cases to next term’s argument docket, including a dispute between the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. House of Representatives over release of the full investigative report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller III.

The justices denied review in the Equal Pay Act case Yovino v. Rizo, leaving in place a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. That appellate court had held that employers could not use prior salary as a defense to unequal pay for equal work.

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