[kmiller]

Ummm if it's one of those thin sleeves, you can leave the laptop in it. I and other employees have scanned laptop still in those sleeves, and never caught any flack for it. Me personally, as long as it's just the laptop and nothing else in there it doesn't really bother me. Why, because I can clearly see it. Does the way some coworkers and I do it go all across the board, I highly doubt it. TSA is known for being inconsistent as we all know.