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The article focuses on funds raised by bar associations for families of deceased U.S Supreme Court justices in order to support their dependent family members. Topics discussed include a fund established by members of the Supreme Court Bar for the financial relief of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney's two dependent daughters, a proposal to grant a death benefit to Amelia Waite, widow of Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite and funds were raised for Waite's family.

In this article, the author discusses the Harlan fund which was made for serving the survivors of Justice John Marshall Harlan in the U.S. It informs that Harlan lived under debt during his tenure on the Supreme Court and had left his wife Malvina Shanklin Harlan and two unmarried daughters in poor financial condition. It informs about a letter which was signed by several lawyers in April 1912 for donation of at least 40,000 dollars for the Harlan fund for Harlan's family.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article related to mustaches and beards of past justices of U.S. Supreme Court, by Brian Stewart in the previous issue.

A letters to the editor is presented in response to the article "Webster's Third New International Dictionary" in the previous issue of the periodical.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article concerning the significant change on the structure of the national statutory codification of the U.S. Code that appeared in the Spring 2011 issue.