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community and human rights advocates over the reach of a 1789 law. The issue is whether businesses can be sued in U.S. courts for human rights violations that take place on foreign soil and have foreign victims.
• -- A challenge to the use of drug-sniffing dogs in two situations. Florida police used a marijuana-sniffing dog's alert at the door of a private home to obtain a search warrant to look inside the house. The question is whether the dog's sniff itself was a search. A separate case looks at the reliability of animals trained to pick up the scent of illegal drugs.
• -- A challenge to the detention of a man who police picked up a mile away from an apartment they had a warrant to search. Occupants of a home may be detained during the search for the safety of officers, but this case tests how far that authority extends away from the place to be searched.
• -- Environmental disputes involving runoff from logging roads in Oregon and water pollution in Los Angeles.
• Paul Clement, the Republican lawyer who lost the health care case and could be before the justices on gay marriage and voting rights, said last term punctured the notion that in close cases, the court goes where Kennedy wants.
• "We've all been reminded that's not always the case," he said.
• The idea that could be tested this term is whether Roberts' concern for the court as an institution that is apart from politics will influence his votes, or at least his reasoning, in the year's biggest cases.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Federal officials have approved the South Dakota Transportation Department's plan to spend nearly $1.6 billion in the next five years.
• The DOT each year develops a five-year program that identifies highway construction and other projects to preserve and improve the state's transportation system.
• The Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transportation Authority have approved the state's 2013-2017 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program.
• State Transportation Secretary Darin Bergquist says a sound transportation system is vital to South Dakota's economy and enhances the quality of life in the state.
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