UPDATE 6:09 pm:  The Solicitor General’s brief on the merits in
this case, urging reversal of the Third Circuit decision, was
filed last Friday, and is now available here.   The Supreme
Court, told by the federal government that it is changing its
position on a prison sexual assault case, on Monday named a
neutral lawyer to take on the defense of a lower-court ruling in
that case.   In a letter last month to the Court, Solicitor
General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., said that because the
government now believes that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit was wrong in the case of Millbrook v. United
States (docket 11-10362), it will file a brief urging that the
ruling be overturned.  In situations like that, the Court
customarily will name a lawyer as amicus to argue the
abandoned side of a case.  It chose a Washington lawyer, Jeffrey
S. Bucholtz, to do that in this case.  The Millbrook case tests
whether the federal government has legal immunity to a claim
that federal prison guards sexually assaulted an