“Chief Justice Urges Pay Raise for Judges; Courts’ Viability at Stake, Roberts Says”: Robert Barnes will have this article Monday in The Washington Post.

“Next big test of power to seize property? The US Supreme Court will examine whether a private company can demand payment in exchange for not seizing private property.” Warren Richey will have this article Tuesday in The Christian Science Monitor.

“Five Years and Counting in Cuba: There’s still little clarity on the legal status of Guantanamo–and its prisoners.” This article will appear in the January 8, 2007 issue of U.S. News & World Report.

“The verdict that keeps on taking”: Today in The Boston Globe, columnist Jeff Jacoby has an op-ed that begins, “The big property rights story of 2005 was the Supreme Court’s ruling, in Kelo v. New London, that the Bill of Rights doesn’t prevent local governments from seizing private property by eminent domain and turning it over to private developers to generate ‘economic development’ or higher tax revenues. The anti-Kelo backlash was the big property rights story of 2006.”

“The Kennedy Factor on the Roberts Court”: In the Week in Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse has an article that begins, “The Supreme Court, having decided only four cases since the term began in October, has not exactly been living in the fast lane. But the pace is about to pick up.”