ACLU, et al. v. Department of Defense, et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, February 2, 2005 [ruling that the CIA should comply with FOIA requests made by ACLU to...

National and State Trends in Fraud & Identity Theft: January — December 2004, Federal Trade Commission , February 1, 2005 [reporting that the number of complaints about identity theft increased 15 percent from the previous year, and represent about 40...

Preliminary Assessments of January 30 Election Process, International Mission for Iraqi Elections , January 30, 2005 [international monitoring mission preliminary report praising the poll in Iraq but stressing a need for greater transparency in campaign financing and expenditures, improvements in...

Ross v. Rell, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, January 28, 2005 . Read the full text of the order here. Reported...

Richey v. Mitchell, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., January 25, 2005 [overturning UK national Kenny Richey's murder conviction and sentence and ruling that he must be released from death row in...

Illinois v. Caballes, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Stevens, January 24, 2005 [ruling that a driver stopped for speeding and then subjected to a "dog sniff" that revealed the presence of drugs in a particular location of the...

Commissioner v. Banks, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Kennedy, January 24, 2005 [ruling that contingency fees paid to an attorney after a jury award or settlement are taxable as part of the successful plaintiff's gross income, in part...

Inaugural address, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, January 23, 2005. Excerpt:Today's event has proven once more that the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian state have come through. The citizens of Ukraine have secured honest elections and the transfer of government has...

Khalid v. Bush and Boumediene v. Bush, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Richard Leon, January 19, 2005 . Excerpt:Thus, to...

In re: Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Robert Casey, January 18, 2005 [dismissing Saudi Arabia, its defense minister and its ambassador to the UK as defendants in...