What began as a fairly low-key U.S. Supreme Court term has ratcheted up in significance in the past few months, with a host of new controversial legal questions about parental school choice, the power of federal agencies and an attack on Planned Parenthood funding now squarely before the justices.

“I think it’s going to be another blockbuster term, just like we’ve had for the last few years,” said Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.