“Sex for sale is not a constitutional right, court rules”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

And at Reason.com’s “Hit & Run” blog, Elizabeth Nolan Brown has a post titled “No Right to Earn a Living Via Prostitution, Says Federal Court; ‘There is no constitutional rights to engage in illegal employment,’ rules the 9th Circuit court.”

You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Sixth Circuit Judge John K. Bush today issued his first two published opinions: You can access the opinions here and here. Someone on Twitter even considers one of the two opinions to be important.

“Trump Taps 5th Circ. Judge To Be Ambassador To Argentina”: Dorothy Atkins of Law360.com has a report (subscription required for full access) that begins, “President Donald J. Trump announced Wednesday he intends to nominate Fifth Circuit Judge Edward C. Prado to be the United States’ ambassador to the Argentine Republic, citing his 35 years of experience as a federal judge.”

“Judge Will Not Release Tapes Of Trial Over California’s Prop 8 Until At Least 2020; The fight over whether and when the public will be able to see the trial over the state’s marriage amendment will continue into the next decade”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court hears congressional gerrymandering case”: Steve Esack of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report.

Charles Thompson of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Pa. Supreme Court takes on Pennsylvania’s Congressional maps case.”

Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press reports that “Justices ponder throwing out Pennsylvania congressional map.”

David DeKok of Reuters reports that “Pennsylvania court could order new congressional map before 2018 midterms.”

And Sam Levine of HuffPost reports that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Appears Open To Striking Down Gerrymandered Map; The justices struggled during oral arguments to determine what a fix could look like, especially with the midterm elections coming up this year.”

“With prison on hold, former Pa. AG Kathleen Kane appeals perjury conviction”: Craig R. McCoy of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Supreme Court Skeptical of Lawyer’s Conduct in Death Penalty Case”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court struggles with murder suspect’s denial.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices lean toward death row inmate in dispute with lawyer.”

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices sympathize with death row inmate’s claim against lawyer.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in McCoy v. Louisiana, No. 16-8255.

“Attorney general sides with archdiocese in battle over Christmas bus ads”: Ann E. Marimow has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.