“How the Justices Get What They Want”: Law professor Robert W. Gordon will have this book review in the December 8, 2011 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Holding Center rape case aims for highest court; County disputes liability over policy on prevention”: Today’s edition of The Buffalo News contains an article that begins, “Erie County wants the nation’s highest court to hear a case in which the county was found liable for the 2002 rape of a female inmate by a deputy in the Erie County Holding Center.”

“Supreme Court to decide whether lawsuits require harm”: James Vicini of Reuters has a report that begins, “In a dispute pitting big business against consumer groups, the Supreme Court hears arguments Monday on whether a person has to suffer legal harm to sue a company over an alleged kickback it got.”