“Appeals court reverses itself over Armenian suit”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today on panel rehearing.

That three-judge panel’s original ruling from August 2009, reaching the opposite result by a 2-1 vote, can be accessed here.

Supplemental brief filed in Third Circuit en banc case challenging certification of a nationwide, state-law, indirect-purchaser antitrust class action seeking to recover monopoly overcharge damages: This afternoon, I filed this supplemental brief for appellant in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in response to an order that the en banc court issued last month. Additional background on the case can be accessed here and here.

“Obama signs law banning ‘crush videos’ depicting animal cruelty”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Tony Mauro has a post titled “President Signs Bill Banning Animal Crush Videos.”

Access online this evening’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: You can access the Order List at this link. The Court granted review in three cases.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Court to decide lawsuit over generic drug labels.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston offers this coverage.

Eleven-judge en banc Ninth Circuit panel unanimously decides not to decide what general standard governs whether to apply the so-called “ministerial exception” to state and federal employment laws: The institution of rehearing en banc is usually reserved for deciding issues of great importance, but today the Ninth Circuit shows that the procedure can also be used to avoid deciding issues of great importance. You can access today’s Ninth Circuit ruling at this link.

“Appeals court reverses McAfee CFO’s conviction”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Federal judges urged to quit private group’s board”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

The second paragraph of the article incorrectly identifies Edith Brown Clement as the Fifth Circuit‘s chief judge.

Update: The article has since been rewritten to eliminate the error mentioned above, which the article contained when this post was first published.

“Long Road for Lawyer Defending the Health Care Law”: This article appears today in The New York Times.