“Appeals court grants stay, lockout back on”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The NFL may be headed back to a lockout. A federal appeals court in St. Louis late Friday granted the owners’ request to temporarily put on hold U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson’s ruling that lifted the lockout.”

Bloomberg News reports that “NFL Team Owners Win Temporary Stay of Court Order Blocking Player Lockout.”

And Reuters reports that “Court grants NFL temporary stay on injunction.”

You can access at this link the order that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this evening.

“In Written Responses, Verrilli Tells Senate He’d Resign If Asked to Play Politics”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Appeals court overturns stem cell research ban”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A divided federal appeals court has ruled that opponents of taxpayer-funded stem cell research are not likely to succeed in a lawsuit to stop it.”

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

“Supreme Court Notebook: Justices staying put.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.