Scalia lauded as shorthanded Supreme Court returns to work

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court resumed work on Monday for the first time since Antonin Scalia's death, with Chief Justice John Roberts paying tribute to the long-serving jurist before the remaining justices engaged in a testy argument over the rights of criminal defendants. In remarks before arguments held in two cases, Roberts said Scalia wrote 282 majority opinions. "He was also known, on occasion to dissent," Roberts joked, referring to Scalia's trenchant opi