In the current issue of The Harvard Law Record: The publication contains articles headlined “Panelists Clash on Political, Legal Implications of War on Terror” and “Legal Journalism and Writing Op-Eds: Advice for Breaking In.”

“Toobin Talks Book, Bench, and Beloved (Alma Mater)”: The Harvard Crimson provides this news update.

“High Court Ruling Has Some Claws”: Today in The Hartford Courant, Lynne Tuohy has an article that begins, “Belligerent cats and their owners beware: The state Supreme Court has set new guidelines that could hold you to a higher standard of liability when cats attack people. Connecticut’s highest court has refused to adopt the more liberal ‘first bite’ rule, popular in Southern states in particular, which essentially holds pet owners accountable only after their pet has shown a propensity to bite people.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Connecticut at this link.

Law school’s law library gives rise to lawsuit: The Hartford Courant reports today that “State Files Suit Over Law Library.”

“Deal keeps Penry imprisoned for life; Inmate who had death sentence overturned three times apologizes”: The Houston Chronicle today contains an article that begins, “The long saga of convicted murderer Johnny Paul Penry, whose case helped push mental retardation into the national debate over capital punishment, ended Friday with a plea agreement to a life sentence. Penry, one of Texas’ best-known death row inmates, agreed to three life sentences and to a stipulation that he was not mentally retarded, in spite of what his lawyers have asserted for almost three decades. His death sentence had been overturned three times, most recently in 2005, because of problems in instructing the jury how to weigh the mitigating effect of his mental capacity.”

The Associated Press reports that “State won’t seek death penalty against killer Penry.”

And Reuters reports that “Guilty plea ends long death-penalty appeal saga.”