“Full-body scanners popping up at courthouses”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Appeals court sides with NFL in ex-players’ suit”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court sided with the NFL and its players union in a lawsuit filed by six former NFL players who claim they lost $20 million in an investment scheme.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

“Court halts sea lion killing at Columbia River dam”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

And in related news, earlier this month The Oregonian reported that “Task force recommends killing more sea lions at Bonneville Dam to protect endangered species.”

“It is surprising to find so many different standards for awarding attorneys’ fees in Lanham Act cases.” In an interesting opinion issued today, Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner — writing on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — examines what constitutes “exceptional cases” for purposes of an award of attorneys’ fees to prevailing parties in Lanham Act suits.

Second Circuit invalidates Vermont statute banning the sale, transmission, or use of prescriber-identifiable data for marketing or promoting a prescription drug unless the prescriber consents: The majority on a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit strikes down the Vermont law as an impermissible restriction on commercial speech in a ruling issued today.

Circuit Judge Debra Ann Livingston issued a dissenting opinion in which she states that “the majority not only reaches the wrong result in this case, but creates Circuit precedent likely to have pernicious broader effects in a complex and evolving area of First Amendment law.”

Although the Second Circuit is reluctant to grant rehearing en banc, it is noteworthy that the majority on this three-judge panel consists of a senior status Second Circuit judge and a federal district judge sitting by designation.

Update: In early coverage, The Wall Street Journal has a news update headlined “Appeals Court Strikes Down Vermont Law Restricting Prescription Data.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Vt. law on drug data mining ruled unconstitutional.”

“Judge extends ban on Oklahoma Sharia law amendment; Ban on a Sharia law amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution will stay in place for a week while U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange studies the issues”: This article appears today in The Oklahoman.

And The Tulsa World reports today that “Judge leaves SQ 755 ban intact for now.”

“California ruling backs police use of DNA from discarded cigarette”: In today’s edition of The Sacramento Bee, Denny Walsh has an article that begins, “In the first case of its kind in California, a state appellate court in Sacramento ruled Monday that a suspect in a criminal investigation has no expectation of privacy in a discarded item, and a DNA test of the item is not an unconstitutional search.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of California’s Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District at this link.

“Michigan Supreme Court censures ex-justice for secretly recording court deliberations”: Dawson Bell has this article today in The Detroit Free Press. The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled “Secret recordings merit censure for ex-Justice Weaver.”

And The Detroit News reports today that “Michigan Supreme Court censures former Justice Weaver; Former justice publicly rebuked for secret recording of colleague using a racial slur.”

You can view the censure letter, in which five justices have joined and one justice has expressly refused to join, by clicking here.