“Shell Nigeria Case Puts Court in Foreign Territory”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg News.

“Federal sentences still vary widely”: The Associated Press has this report.

“How is the Roberts Court unusual? A law professor counts the ways.” Robert Barnes will have this article Monday in The Washington Post. A related graphic can be accessed here.

“Unleashed Spending Floods Americans in Negativity”: Online at Bloomberg News, Albert Hunt has an essay that begins, “This may come to be known as the Samuel Alito election.”

“Orie sisters ordered cover-up, former aide testifies”: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review contains this article today.

And The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports today that “Sen. Orie says politics was kept out of legislative office; Trial resumes Monday; charged with using staff for campaigning.”

“Candidate says Alabama Supreme Court rulings favor corporate interests”: This article appears today in The Mobile Press-Register.

“Corporate Abuse Abroad, a Path to Justice Here”: Lincoln Caplan has this Sunday Observer essay in the Sunday Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times.

“More than 100 former state attorneys general back former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman’s high court appeal”: Mary Orndorff had this article yesterday in The Birmingham News.

“The Washington duo behind a Texas affirmative action case”: The Washington Post has this report.

“Inmate challenges pedophilia test as junk science”: Chuck Lindell had this article Friday in The Austin American-Statesman.

“Same-sex custody battle could change Florida law”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Before state’s high court: role of race in identifying a face; In a case out of Seattle’s University District, the Washington State Supreme Court is being asked to determine whether jurors should be told that eyewitnesses who identify strangers across racial lines — for example, a white man identifying a black man — are more likely to be mistaken.” This article appears today in The Seattle Times.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: States, courts and the illegal alien disaster.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.