“University employees lose 11th Circuit fight over sex discrimination claims; A former art professor at Augusta University and the former head women’s basketball coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology each filed complaints of discrimination and retaliation”: Megan Butler of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“Judiciary Rejects Media Bid to Allow Cameras in Criminal Trials; Criminal rules panel voted not to change courtroom camera ban; One state court judge endorsed limited broadcasting”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“CNN must face Project Veritas’ defamation lawsuit, US appeals court rules”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“GOP Wins in Partisan High Court Races Has Party Mulling Tweaks; GOP sees court wins in North Carolina, Ohio with party labels; Montana lawmaker pushing to change court election ballots”: Eric Heisig of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“John Roberts Bet Big on Trump — and Won”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“State Supreme Court 2024 Election Results in Key Races; Democrats expanded their majority in Michigan, Republican justices solidified theirs in Ohio, and a justice was ousted in Oklahoma”: Douglas Keith has this article online at State Court Report.

“Man Who Illegally Accessed Ginsburg’s Medical Records Gets 2 Years in Prison; The man, a former health care worker, was convicted in July on two charges stemming from the privacy breach and his attempts to cover it up”: Aimee Ortiz of The New York Times has this report.

“Trump readies to name ‘fearless’ conservative judges in second term”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Conservative Supreme Court reunion with its maker gets attention of court watchers; A second Trump administration may shake up the Supreme Court’s relationship with the federal government”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Here Is the Judicial Nominations Landscape That Donald Trump Will Inherit: A look at what Democrats can do in the remaining weeks before Inauguration Day — and what Republicans will be able to do in the years that follow it.” Madiba K. Dennie and Jay Willis will have this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Most of Sean Combs’s Accusers Are Unnamed. Can They Stay That Way? The argument over anonymity in civil and criminal sex abuse cases weighs the principle of a fair trial with the desire to protect accusers’ privacy.” Julia Jacobs of The New York Times has this report.

“Mirroring the Justices’ Styles”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“NC Supreme Court race could head to recount; GOP sweeps Court of Appeals races”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

And Rusty Jacobs of WUNC reports that “Outstanding provisional ballots could be key to tight North Carolina Supreme Court race.”

“Supreme Court retention vote could spark major changes in state’s judicial system, experts say”: M. Scott Carter and Jordan Gerard of The Oklahoman have this report.

Barbara Hoberock of Oklahoma Voice reports that “Oklahoma voters opt to remove one Oklahoma Supreme Court justice.”

And Clifton Adcock of Oklahoma City Free Press reports that “One Oklahoma Supreme Court justice is ousted after dark money groups dumped millions into judicial races; Voters chose to retain justices James E. Edmondson and Noma Gurich, but not Justice Yvonne Kauger.”

“Pamela Goodwine, longtime judge endorsed by Beshear, wins seat on Kentucky Supreme Court”: Lucas Aulbach of The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has this report.

Austin Horn of The Lexington Herald Leader reports that “Judge Goodwine wins KY Supreme Court race, becomes first Black woman elected to high court.”

And Sarah Ladd of the Kentucky Lantern reports that “Pamela Goodwine makes history again as first Black woman elected to Kentucky Supreme Court.”

“Karen Baker defeats Rhonda Wood in runoff to become the next chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court”: Michael R. Wickline of The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has this report.

And Andrew DeMillo of The Associated Press reports that “Justice who opposed blocking an Arkansas abortion referendum will lead the state Supreme Court.”

“Mexico’s Top Court Dismisses Proposal to Invalidate Contentious Judicial Overhaul; The move spares the country’s new president from having to choose between recognizing a court decision to strike down the overhaul or aligning with her party’s leaders and ignoring it”: Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and Simon Romero of The New York Times have this report.

“Trump’s win may extend conservative control of the Supreme Court for decades”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“New Fifth Circuit Judges Possible for Trump, Big Cases to Shift; Appeals court already has six Trump appointees; Liberal litigants expected to sue in other courts”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“With Trump win, focus turns to older Supreme Court justices; Some liberals called for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before Donald Trump returns to the White House; But Democrats would struggle to confirm a replacement”: Justin Jouvenal and Tobi Raji of The Washington Post have this report.

And Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press report that “Trump’s election could assure a conservative Supreme Court majority for decades.”

“ABC, Kimmel Wrongly Ducked Copyright Suit, Santos Tells 2nd Cir.; Court ignored show’s bad faith in inducing Cameos, brief said; Santos says use not transformative, as ABC wrote his scripts”: Kyle Jahner of Bloomberg Law has this report.