This episode appears to be based on the 1991 Wanda Holloway case. Holloway was a Texas mom who asked her brother-in-law to hire a hit man--a hit man who was to kill the mother of a girl competing with her daughter for a spot on a Texas cheerleading squad. After a second trial, Holloway pleaded "no contest" to attempted murder. The judge found Holloway guilty and sentenced her to ten years in prison. She was released on March 1, 1997, after serving six months of her sentence. The event was later made into two films Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story (1992) and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993).
Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan) & Kelly Bishop (Marian Borland) also worked together on three episodes of The Good Wife (2009) as Peter Florrick & Bea Wilson respectively.