The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in what may be its top environmental and employment discrimination cases of the term, and from the tenor of the debates, the verdict seems to be: Whales, dolphins and employers will lose.

In the environmental case, Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council , most justices seemed to accept the Bush administration’s argument that the needs of the military should trump environmental concerns about damage to marine mammals when it comes to Navy sonar training off the coast of California.

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