“Our puritanical progressives”: In Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will will have an op-ed that begins, “An eminent Harvard law professor, James Thayer (1831-1902), argued that although the judicial function is ‘merely that of fixing the outside border of reasonable legislative action,’ this still gives courts ‘a great and stately jurisdiction.'”

“‘In a thousand pieces’: First on the scene, Destin pair describe scene of plane crash that killed three.” The Destin (Fla.) Log contains this article today.

And today’s edition of The New Haven Register contains an article headlined “‘New Haven 20’ lawyer killed in Florida plane crash.”

“The Arbitration War”: This editorial appears today in The New York Times.

“Lack of funding builds death row logjam; Convicted killers have a hard time finding lawyers to handle their final appeals, which can be both expensive and gut-wrenching”: Maura Dolan has this article today in The Los Angeles Times.