“Pa. Supreme Court to hear dispute over gun owner privacy”: Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

“WV Supreme Court to have female majority for 1st time”: Kate White of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail has this report. According to the article, West Virginia will be “one of 11 top courts that will have a majority of justices who are women in 2017.”

“Paul E. Pfeifer: Retiring Ohio Supreme Court justice has left mark.” Randy Ludlow of The Columbus Dispatch has an article that begins, “Justice Paul E. Pfeifer leaves the Ohio Supreme Court with a legacy as a colorful contrarian, doubter of the death penalty and author of powerful dissents that skewered the majority’s rulings.”

“Supreme Court verdict hasn’t deterred Texas lawmakers from filing abortion bills”: Samantha Ketterer has this article in today’s edition of The Dallas Morning News.

“A shot fired into Mexico killed a teenager, and now, the Supreme Court will weigh in”: Jordan Rudner of The Dallas Morning News has this report.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Circuit Split!” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation about a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued today.

“The Continuing Collapse of the Death Penalty”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“David Boies on Halliburton’s end: remembering a daughter and a disaster that wasn’t.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

In the January 2017 issue of ABA Journal magazine: Mark Walsh has an article headlined “How will Trump shape the Supreme Court?”

Terry Carter has the magazine’s cover story headlined “Erasing the News: Should some stories be forgotten?”

And the new installment of Bryan A. Garner’s “On Words” column is headlined “A Lost Art: Read any good book reviews lately? Probably not — and here’s why that can be a bad thing.”

“U.S. appeals court revives Clinton email suit”: Doina Chiacu of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

Ninth Circuit grants rehearing en banc in case presenting Second Amendment challenge to zoning of gun stores: You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granting rehearing en banc at this link.

My earlier coverage of the original partially divided three-judge panel’s ruling, which allowed such a Second Amendment zoning challenge to proceed, can be accessed here and here.

Northern Mariana Islands voting restriction to those of “Northern Marianas descent” violates Fifteenth Amendment, Ninth Circuit holds: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Let’s Hear It For The Lawyer Who Fought In Court For Merrick Garland — And Lost; Steven Michel has probably done more than anyone in the Senate to advance the thwarted Supreme Court nominee”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Steinert students raise funds to honor alumnus Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito”: Laura Pollack of Community News Service of Lawrenceville, New Jersey has this report (via Jess Bravin).

“From Delay To Action: The Supreme Court To Take A Conservative Turn In 2017.” Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio has this report.