The nation's spy court is moving from its longtime home at the Justice Department to a nearby federal courthouse, a move that some hope will assert the court's independence even as Congress shifts some of its authority to the Bush administration. Full Article at Miami Herald

While unauthorized entry into the United States is illegal, being in the country after having entered illegally is not necessarily a crime, according to a new ruling by the Kansas Court of Appeals. ... Full Article at JunkYardBlog

ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court set free a German national of Pakistani origin on Tuesday, two months after he was arrested by an intelligence agency on unspecified charges, his lawyer said. Full Article at Reuters Alert Net

Posted by: McQ on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Seriously, this particular ruling just seems tortured: While unauthorized entry into the United States is illegal, being in the country after having entered illegally is not necessarily a... Full Article at QandO

A federal appeals court said Monday it needs more time to consider whether to block Whole Foods Market's takeover of rival Wild Oats Markets. Full Article at Houston Chronicle

WASHINGTON -- A cancer researcher is asking the Supreme Court to block a decision handing ownership of thousands of blood and tissue samples to a university. Full Article at The Washington Post

The ruling's effect also could stretch far beyond Cingular, now owned by San Antonio-based AT&T Inc. and renamed AT&T. Virtually all of the nation's major credit card firms and phone companies include similar clauses in their contracts, as do car... Full Article at Hartford Courant

ST. LOUIS --A federal appeals court lifted a more than year-old stay on executions in Missouri on Friday, refusing to block capital punishment while a death-row inmate asks the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the state's form of lethal injection to be... Full Article at Boston Globe

A secret U.S. intelligence court has ordered the Bush administration to register its views about a records request by the American Civil Liberties Union, which wants the court to release a series of pivotal orders issued earlier this year about the... Full Article at The Washington Post