“Court Unlikely to Halt ‘Nude’ Airport Body Scanners”: At Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog, David Kravets has a post that begins, “A federal appeals court on Thursday appeared unlikely it would block the use and ongoing deployment of the so-called ‘nude’ airport body scanners, which the government maintains are necessary to protect the airways from terrorists.”

“Virginia health care hearings set: The Fourth Circuit Court schedules May 10 hearings for two Virginia cases testing the constitutionality of a key provision of the new federal health care law.” Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Fourth Circuit schedules oral argument on constitutionality of federal healthcare mandate for May 10, 2011: You can access the notice of oral argument that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today by clicking here.

The federal district court’s ruling in favor of the federal government in this case can be accessed here.

No, the White House has not nominated six judges for the Tenth Circuit: Rather, as the title of yesterday’s press release states, “President Obama Nominates Steve Six to the United States Circuit Court.”

And The Lawrence Journal-World reports today that “Obama nominates former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six to replace Tacha on federal appeals bench.”

Of course, The Topeka Capital-Journal could not resist spawning confusion yesterday in a news update headlined “Six nominated to Court of Appeals.”

“Group says body scanners an ‘unreasonable search'”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A privacy rights advocacy group told appellate judges Thursday that the use of full-body scanners as a first line of defense at airport security checkpoints is an ‘unreasonable search’ in violation of passengers’ civil rights.”

The case was argued today before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

“Lessons From the Rubashkin Amicus Debacle: The Government’s About-Face Calls for a DOJ Policy on Friend-of-the-Court Briefs.” Attorneys Anthony J. Franze and R. Stanton Jones have this post today at “The Legal Pulse” blog of the Washington Legal Foundation.

“Ninth Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder to Assume Senior Status”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this news release today.

“Gun Advocates Step In to Oppose D.C. Circuit Pick”: David Ingram has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“High court takes First Amendment copyright case”: David L. Hudson Jr. has this news analysis online at the First Amendment Center.

“Case of Ashland-based Islamic charity offers window into government’s approach to labeling terrorist groups”: This article appears today in The Oregonian.

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Treasury: Terrorist list explanations too tedious.”

You can access via this link (10.8MB Windows Media audio file) the audio of yesterday’s Ninth Circuit oral argument in the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation case.

Prepare the cone of silence: At his “Under the Radar” blog at Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a post titled “Justice Department plans to use secret code in leak trial.”

“Child Observers and Bryant — a GVR.” Law professor Richard D. Friedman has this post at “The Confrontation Blog.”

“The Supreme Court’s Shrinking Election Law Docket, 2001-2010: A Legacy of Bush v. Gore or Fear of the Roberts Court?” Law professor Richard L. Hasen (author of the “Election Law Blog“) has posted this article online at SSRN (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

“Airport ‘Nude’ Body Scanners: Are They Effective?” David Kravets has this post at Wired.com’s “Threat Level” blog.

“International law is foreign: Ban foreign law from courts; We make our own laws.” In today’s edition of The Washington Times, U.S. Representative Sandy Adams (R-FL) has an op-ed that begins, “In recent years, Supreme Court justices have interjected international law into their rulings, creating an environment of disregard for national sovereignty and threatening the institutions put in place by our forefathers.”

“Wal-Mart Workers’ Group Seeks Scalia’s Recusal From Court Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Couple can’t sue over ‘staring’ condo neighbour; Former strata president allegedly looked into suite 200 times a year”: Today’s edition of The Vancouver Sun contains an article that begins, “Residents of a condominium on Vancouver’s west side cannot seek damages in court over a ‘staring’ neighbour, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled this week.”

You can access Tuesday’s ruling of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia at this link.

“House committee sets 60 percent vote re-election standard for judges”: This article appears today in The Orlando Sentinel.

“Des Moines lawyer is named to panel he’s suing by Branstad”: Today’s edition of The Des Moines Register contains an article that begins, “Gov. Terry Branstad has appointed a lawyer to the Iowa Judicial Nominating Commission who is suing the commission on behalf of several Iowans. Branstad chose William R. Gustoff of Des Moines to serve on the commission, which selects the finalists for vacancies on the Iowa Court of Appeals and Iowa Supreme Court.”

And in somewhat related news, The Omaha World-Herald reports today that “Vander Platts visits the Bluffs.”