“High Court to Consider State Secrets Doctrine”: Jess Bravin will have this article Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Supreme Court: Is US unfairly hiding behind state-secrets privilege? Since 1953, the US has been able to derail lawsuits it says could reveal state secrets; The Supreme Court will look at a case Tuesday that questions whether the privilege is being applied properly.”

Tuesday’s edition of The Washington Post will contain an editorial entitled “Supreme Court can curb abuse of ‘state secrets’ privilege.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has this oral argument preview.

“Supreme Court of Canada’s winter session kicks off”: This article appears in The Lawyers Weekly.

“Anger over courtesy titles for supreme court justices; Critics say system discriminates against the husbands and civil partners of justices”: The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“Santa Clara County’s fight to get paid back for drug overcharges reaches U.S. Supreme Court”: Howard Mintz has this article today in The San Jose Mercury News.

“Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady imposes order to prevent another ‘Taj Mahal'”: Tuesday’s edition of The St. Petersburg Times will contain an article that begins, “There may never be another ‘Taj Mahal’ courthouse in Florida.”

“Justice O’Connor to speak at Reef”: This article appears today in The Virgin Islands Daily News.

“Courts plagued by jump in cases”: Last Friday’s edition of The San Antonio Express-News contained an article that begins, “A skyrocketing number of immigration and drug cases along the U.S.-Mexico border and delays in nominating and confirming judges to fill vacancies are creating a judicial emergency in Texas and other Southwest states, federal officials say.”

“Life’s a beach for federal judges”: This front page article appears today in The Philadelphia Daily News, along with a related article headlined “How the Virgin Islands and Philly ended up in same circuit.”