“Sex offenders behind bars: How long? Using the civil commitment process to lengthen a criminal sentence is dishonest and dangerous.” This editorial appears today in The Los Angeles Times.

And Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial entitled “Predators and the Constitution: The feds usurp another area of state law.”

“Supreme Court weighs screening of child witnesses”: Canwest News Service has a report that begins, “Are child witnesses as good as their word? The Supreme Court of Canada will consider that question Tuesday when it weighs in on changes to the Canada Evidence Act, which permit children to tell their stories in court as long as they promise the judge they will tell the truth.”

“US investment banks divided over levy”: Tuesday’s edition of Financial Times will contain this article.

“A Bagram Reckoning”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “We keep waiting — in vain — for the Obama administration to stop trying to block judicial scrutiny of some of the Bush administration’s most outrageous policies on the detention of prisoners.”

“If Congress passes bill, court fight not far behind; Health reform: Can the government require you to buy insurance?” This article will appear Tuesday in The Salt Lake Tribune.

And in Tuesday’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, Tom Hamburger and James Oliphant will have an article headlined “Malpractice system survives healthcare overhaul intact; Democratic lawmakers were prepared to make concessions to Republicans on the subject; But after hard lobbying by trial lawyers and a series of party-line votes, little is likely to change.”

“Justices Better at Precedent Than Prescience”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Judge bans media from woman’s trial in Henry County”: This article appears today in The Toledo Blade.

“Prince recalls nations’ mutual ties”: Tuesday’s edition of The New Zealand Herald contains an article that begins, “Prince William has waxed lyrical about his fondness for New Zealand, but skirted away from the issue of republicanism in his speech at the opening of the new Supreme Court building.”

BBC News reports that “Prince William opens New Zealand court building.”

TVNZ reports that “Supreme Court finally gets new home.”

And New Zealand’s 3 News has a report headlined “Mixed reaction to new Supreme Court building.”

You can see photographs of the new home of the Supreme Court of New Zealand both here and here.

Welcome back: Today’s edition of The Great Falls Tribune contains an article headlined “The Cotters: Montana’s power couple” that begins, “When Michael Cotter first met his future bride at the University of Notre Dame School of Law in 1975, neither would have imagined that they were headed to the pinnacle of Montana’s legal world. Today the newly-minted Montana U.S. Attorney and his wife, Montana Supreme Court Justice Patricia Cotter, say they’re lucky to have built a loving family and successful legal careers together.”

“Dueling portraits of Prop. 8 backers at trial”: Bob Egelko has this article today in The San Francisco Chronicle.

“Practice Before the Office of the Solicitor General: Few Secret Meetings.” Tom Goldstein has this interesting post at “SCOTUSblog.”