to the outcome of these cases well to answer that joining me now is the senior editor of reason jacob sullum hey there jack of first things first give us a rundown of these notable cases that were up for debate in court this week. well wednesday the court heard two cases involving drug sniffing dogs which raised two questions one is how reliable does a dog have to be for his alerts to justify a search in the mechanism of vehicle search and the other case had to do with a dog sniffing at home is that you know so constitute a certain sort of thing you need a warrant for or is that just an examination of odors in the air that does not require a warrant and then the other case that was interesting grosser liberties perspective best to do with the foreign intelligence surveillance surveillance act which as of two thousand warrantless surveillance of international communications involving people in the united states and the question this report is considering right now is not is that constitutional can anybody. sue over this is anyone have standing to challenge this law or is just the sort of thin