By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has two cases left to decide before justices begin their summer break.

A decision is expected to be handed down Wednesday on whether to invalidate state laws that require public employees to pay fees to the unions that represent them in collective bargaining, even if the workers don't want to be union members.

Conservative groups have tried for years to get the court to rule that the laws violate employees' free-speech rights by compelling them to pay money to the unions. The justices came close to deciding the issue in 2016, but Justice Antonin Scalia's death produced a 4-4 tie.

The other case involves Florida's claim that Georgia uses too much water from the rivers that flow into the Florida Panhandle and the Gulf of Mexico.

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