“For Better Government, Don’t Kill All the Lawyers”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg News.

“Bay Area couple at center of federal gay rights showdown”: In Monday’s edition of The San Jose Mercury News, Howard Mintz will have an article that begins, “In late August 2008, Karen Golinski and her partner of 18 years, Amy Cunninghis, gathered with family and friends in the rotunda of San Francisco’s city hall and exchanged wedding vows, their young son serving as ring-bearer.”

“Health-care case brings fight over which Supreme Court justices should decide it”: Robert Barnes will have this article Monday in The Washington Post.

“Critics Say Budget Cuts for Courts Risk Rights”: John Schwartz has this article today in The New York Times.