LINKS TO DESTIN: Nation's spotlight falls on region as high court takes up beach restoration (UPDATED with OPENING ARGUMENT ANALYSIS)

The Destin area is in the national spotlight as the nation's highest court takes up a beach restoration case. The case has drawn opinions from newspapers across the land. Here is a collection of coverage of the case — both from The Log and beyond.

To read SCOTUSblog's recap of the opening arguments and analysis, click here.

The USA Today reports how the 'hot dog stand' test could blow this case wide open, click here.

Judges appear sympathetic to beachfront property owners, the LA Times says, click here.

The AP says the opposite, click here.

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To read more coverage from The Log on the case, click here.

To see photos from the disputed restoration project, click here.

To read a Log analysis on how the court might rule and what role Sonia Sotomayor might play, click here.

National Public Radio explores the question, "restoration project or 'land grab?' " in this story, click here.

"The beach restoration project did not take an inch of the [owner's] land" attorneys tell the LA Times in their version of the story, click here.

"This wasn't needed for storm protection," an attorney tells the Orlando Sentinel, click here.

"They are literally taking our property," a Destin landowner tells ABC News in this story on the case, click here.

Are beaches "in trust for all the people" or private property? The Christian Science Monitor offers this report, click here.

A writer for Forbes likens the case to the old joke of the defendant who said, "I didn't kill the victim, your honor, but if I did, it was in self-defense." Click here.

When two cherished rights collide we turn to 1,500 years of law, says a Port Huron Times Herald editorial on the case, click here.

"If the U.S. Supreme Court sets aside the ruling by the Florida Supreme Court it will be an activist step," claims a St. Pete Times' editorial on the case, click here.

Property takings by a court are still property takings, argues the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, click here.

The Miami Herald editorial board says this is an arcane lawsuit and "the wrong decision could wash over Florida's economy like a tidal wave," click here.

The Wall Street Journal opines that restoration is a taking that violates the Fifth Amendment, click here.

For source materials and court filings check out this wiki and click here.