Fine points of the law

• In July, a federal appeals court ruled that no one could challenge President Bush's order permitting warrant less eavesdropping on phone calls into and out of the United States, unless it was a person actually eavesdropped on. However, according to law professors cited by the Los Angeles Times, anyone who could prove that would be barred under other national security laws from revealing that fact in public. • Pamir Safiwill soon be retried in Lincoln, Neb., for raping a woman in 2004, but this time, Judge Jeffre Cheuvront has prohibited prosecutors from using the terms "rape" or "sexual assault" in front of the jury because they might prejudice Safi, who claims the sex was consensual. The alleged victim said she feels humiliated to refer to the incident as mere "sex." ¦