“Federal Appeals Court upholds Georgia ban on guns in ‘places of worship'”: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this news update reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“Federal Circuit Weighs New Precedent in Human Gene Patentability Case”: Zoe Tillman has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

And at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Brent Kendall has a post titled “Judges Hold the Line on Gene Patents.”

“Court revives FBI supervisor’s bias complaint”: Pete Yost of The Associated Press has this report.

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post titled “D.C. Circuit Revives FBI Agent’s Discrimination Claim Against Bureau.”

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

“A Bigger Victory Than We Knew”: In the August 16, 2012 issue of The New York Review of Books, Ronald Dworkin will have an essay that begins, “Above all, we should celebrate. The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, has left President Obama’s Affordable Care Act almost entirely intact.”

“EPA Sulfur Dioxide Rules Upheld By U.S. Court Of Appeals”: Bloomberg News has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

Update: In other coverage, Pete Yost of The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court rejects challenge to clean air rule.”

Billy Preston minus Syreeta equals concurring opinion mention: A one paragraph concurring opinion that Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown issued today begins:

An old song laments that “nothing from nothing leaves nothing.” Billy Preston, Nothing from Nothing, on The Kids and Me (A&M Records 1974). Logically, it should follow that nothing plus nothing leads to the same result. But, in the rarefied atmosphere of attorneys’ fees litigation and in light of this Court’s divided decision in New Jersey v. EPA, 663 F.3d 1279 (D.C. Cir. 2011), nothing times nothing is apparently worth a great deal.

You can access today’s complete D.C. Circuit ruling at this link.

“Oklahoma legal leaders urge Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim Inhofe to seek vote on state’s judicial nominee; Senate Republicans are blocking votes for nominees to federal appeals courts, and leaders in Oklahoma’s legal community want the state’s GOP senators to intervene for Robert E. Bacharach”: This article appears today in The Oklahoman.

“Book Says Supreme Court Gig Crashed Sonia Sotomayor’s Personal Life”: U.S. News & World Report has this blog post.

“Justice Roberts issues order in Wicomico case; Suspect’s DNA collection contested in 2003 rape”: This article appears today in The Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland.

And The Baltimore Sun has a blog post titled “Maryland law enforcement agencies resume DNA collections; After temporary order from chief justice, local police continue practice.”

“Lawyers for ex-Ill. governor before appeals court”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Bayou Blues”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “An ugly fight about who should be the Louisiana Supreme Court’s next chief justice is an unsettling example of how power can trample voting rights even where they should be sacrosanct.”