Word: warrantable
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...Lewis, who will ask the court to dismiss the prosecution's seven claims and request for relief, said that "in our view, none of the allegations that the plaintiffs have brought warrant the case going to court...
...Connecticut Supreme Court ruling last week that ordered a new trial for David Mooney, a homeless man charged with murder because his property -- a duffel bag and a box stashed under a ramp leading onto Interstate 91 in New Haven -- had been searched by police without a warrant. "His duffel bag was luggage," observes criminal-law professor Lloyd Weinreb of Harvard. "If someone were walking down the street with a suitcase, everyone would take it for granted that it was private property." The court ruled that the bloodstained pants and $700 in coins found in the bag were inadmissible...
...abuses they committed during their years of power. Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu was summarily shot; others have been imprisoned or put on trial. But Erich Honecker may escape retribution. Soviet authorities last week secretly flew the former East German leader to Moscow, beyond the reach of a German warrant charging him with manslaughter...
...order that resulted in the death of scores of East Germans attempting to cross the border to the West. Before his flight to the Soviet Union, he was under Soviet protection at a military hospital in Beelitz, south of Berlin, where court officers were prevented from serving the arrest warrant. Despite the protests, Honecker's lawyer believes the charges will be dropped and he probably will not return to Germany...
Every intervention requires a just cause. That doesn't mean that every just cause warrants intervention. To warrant intervention, a cause must at the same time be important to the U.S. The idea that importance ought not matter and that consistency impels us to intervene against every injustice is simply American moralism gone wild...