“Working 9 to 12: ‘How Much Is Enough?’ by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky.” Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner has this review in tomorrow’s Sunday Book Review section of The New York Times.

“I made Clarence Thomas laugh: It’s not easy being a Supreme Court clerk; We ate pizza with Scalia and battled to sneak funny words into rulings.” Law professor Jay Wexler has this essay online today at Salon.

“Federal appeals court upholds law allowing Louisiana to shut down abortion clinics”: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court upholds La. abortion law.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Lawyers of Big Tobacco Lawsuits Take Aim at Food Industry”: This article will appear Sunday in The New York Times.

“Judicial pay fight may reach high court again; Federal Circuit to hear case claiming Congress unconstitutionally withholds judges’ cost-of-living pay adjustments”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.