FBI spokesman Paul Bresson, in response if Magic Lantern needed a court order to deploy, "Like all technology projects or tools deployed by the FBI it would be used pursuant to the appropriate legal process".
The company was convicted in June by an Alberta court for failing to deploy scarecrows and loud cannons in April 2008 to prevent the migratory birds from landing on a tailings pond containing oily residue from one of its operations.
If, by contrast, tort is understood as a law for the redress of wrongs, courts will be entitled to deploy a more robust form of judicial review.
In December, federal marshals approached the company with a court order permitting them to deploy a device to register time, date and source information involving e-mail messages sent to and from a specified account.
Lawyers for the government are expected to argue that military action is not a matter for the courts, and that a decision to deploy troops in a foreign conflict is not capable of being a breach of its obligation to protect life.
According to a federal court, the side air bags failed to deploy, contributing to the brain injuries he received in the crash.
However a public inquiry at Liverpool crown court has heard that the decision to deploy armed officers was based on out-of-date intelligence.
From the evidence we presented to the court there were 8-10 bombs that they wanted to deploy, a mixture of suicide bombs and IEDs [improvised explosive devices].
Rigid labour laws make it hard to deploy workers efficiently and lead to costly court cases, 3.2m last year alone.
The appeals court in Katzin held that a warrant was indeed required to deploy GPS tracking devices, and further, that none of the narrow exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement (e.g. exigent circumstances, the "automobile exception", etc).
