“#MeToo law restricts use of nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct cases”: Stacy Perman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“States needs to stop passing flagrantly unconstitutional antiabortion laws”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Year in Review”: Anna Salvatore has this post at her “High School SCOTUS” blog.

“Chief Justice Pushes for Tougher Measures to Shield Court Workers From Harassment”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Chief Justice Roberts notes progress in protecting judicial employees from misconduct.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Chief Justice Roberts lauds progress against sexual harassment by federal judges.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Chief Justice John Roberts: Federal judges must end abuse, harassment.”

Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “Chief justice details efforts to combat workplace misconduct.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Judiciary Started Addressing Workplace Misconduct, Roberts Says.”

You can access at this link the text of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.’s 2018 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.

“N.Y.’s New Attorney General Is Targeting Trump. Will Judges See a ‘Political Vendetta’?” Jeffery C. Mays of The New York Times has this report.

“Judicial Nominations 2018 — Year in Review”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“‘Free Speech’ Means Just That; A too-broad interpretation of the Constitution’s free-speech clause protects things that have nothing to do with speech and makes other clauses superfluous”: Law professor John Yoo and James C. Phillips have this essay online at National Review.

“Trump’s tweets: Judges in government secrecy cases say they are ‘speculation’ and not ‘pure fact.'” Bart Jansen of USA Today has this article, in which Ian Samuel is quoted.

“Top 10 stories of 2018: Wildfires, Supreme Court fury, a new mayor and a DNA breakthrough.” Michael Cabanatuan of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“China’s supreme court forced to admit it lost documents in long-running contract dispute; Supreme Court of China starts investigation after popular blogger reports that papers went missing two years ago”: Catherine Wong of The South China Morning Post has this report.

“Pueblo man heads to Supreme Court”: Peter Roper of The La Junta (Colo.) Tribune-Democrat has an article that begins, “When he was a young, aspiring journalist, Dennis Obduskey would have loved to sit in the U.S. Supreme Court, listening as justices challenged lawyers with tough questions about the meaning of the Constitution or an act of Congress or some other essential legal issue.”

“We can summarize 2018 in two words: It boofed.” So begins “Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2018” in today’s issue of The Washington Post Magazine.

“Judge Who Ruled Against Obamacare Halts Order Pending Appeal”: Elizabeth Wollman and Tom Korosec of Bloomberg News have this report on a 30-page decision that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued today.

“I filed one of the 83 dismissed misconduct complaints against Brett Kavanaugh. Here’s why.” Larry Behrendt has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Law Was Front And Center In 2018 — Because Trump’s Actions Made It Necessary; Trump tested the limits of the system in many ways”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“‘On the Basis of Sex’ Review: On RBG, Flawed Argument; This biopic of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg fails to foreshadow the future jurist’s supreme singularity.” Joe Morgenstern had this movie review in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Men ‘Me Too’ Left Behind: The movement toppled some alleged abusers, but others did just fine.” Alana Horowitz Satlin of HuffPost has this report.

“Kavanaugh, Kanye, Beyoncé, ‘Black Panther’: Washington on Pop Culture in 2018.” Matt Flegenheimer, Astead W. Herndon, and Katie Rogers have this conversation online at The New York Times.

“Justice Kennedy Delivered 2018’s Most Preventable Disaster”: Michelangelo Signorile has this essay online at HuffPost.

“The Year of the Old Boys: It’s hard to overstate the extent to which childish masculinity revealed itself in 2018 as the engine of power in America.” Lili Loofbourow has this essay online at Slate.

“Is Florida’s Amendment Restoring Felons’ Voting Rights ‘Self-Executing’?” Danny Rivero had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.”

“Top Supreme Court cases to watch in 2019”: Lydia Wheeler of The Hill has this report.

At the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist, Steven Mazie has a post titled “Courting controversy: The Supreme Court’s term is likely to heat up in 2019; The justices are about to consider a number of Donald Trump’s most controversial policies.”

And online at Fox News, law professor John Yoo and James Phillips have an essay titled “2019 could be an incredible and historic year for the Supreme Court — Here’s why.”

“A Holiday Mystery: Why Did John Roberts Intervene in the Mueller Probe? We’re about to find out why the chief justice of the Supreme Court decided to get involved in the special counsel’s investigation.” Nelson W. Cunningham has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Pa. Supreme Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse”: Chris Huffaker has this front page article in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Aubrey Whelan of The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article headlined “Pa. Supreme Court: Mother who used drugs during pregnancy didn’t commit child abuse.”

Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Pregnant women who use illegal drugs can’t be charged with child abuse, Pa. Supreme Court says.”

And Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press reports that “Court rules mothers’ drug use in pregnancy isn’t child abuse.”

Yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania consists of an opinion announcing the judgment of the court, two opinions concurring in the judgment (here and here), and a dissenting opinion.

“Mueller appears to respond early in subpoena fight at Supreme Court”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

“Supreme Court lays low after Kavanaugh confirmation”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Challengers To Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Push Back At The Supreme Court; Trump’s efforts to ban transgender military service have been blocked by lower courts; Challengers asked the Supreme Court on Friday to keep it that way”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Will the Supreme Court Save Obamacare Again? The chief justice would rather leave it to Congress.” This editorial appears online at The New York Times.

In Bashman news from Nigeria: Tireni Adebayo Kemi Filani News reports that “Robbers bash man’s car, kill him for complaining.”

“Judge grants Mumia Abu-Jamal partial appeals request”: Robert Moran of The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article that begins, “A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court judge ruled Thursday that convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal can re-argue an appeal before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court because then-Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille did not recuse himself due to his prior role as Philadelphia district attorney when Abu-Jamal was appealing his case.”

And Bobby Allyn of WHYY has a report headlined “Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal can reargue appeal in 1981 Philly police slaying.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas at this link.

“Adverse ruling in ‘bump stocks’ lawsuit would render Matt Whitaker a mere figurehead”: Jeff Mordock has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.

“Disinformation campaign targeting Roy Moore’s Senate bid may have violated law, Alabama attorney general says”: Craig Timberg and Tony Romm have this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers.” Jason M. Bailey has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“A Woman’s Rights: More and more laws are treating a fetus as a person, and a woman as less of one, as states charge pregnant women with crimes.” The New York Times has posted this editorial series online.

“Supreme Court Gets Involved In Mysterious Case Involving Mueller Probe”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”