In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission in 2005 changed channelization and licensing costs in a nearby band ( 1920 MHz – 1930 MHz, or 1. 9 GHz ), known as Unlicensed Personal Communications Services ( UPCS ), allowing DECT devices to be sold in the U. S. with only minimal changes.

In the past few decades, much of the freight traffic shifted from rail to road, which led the Federal Government to introduce a motor toll for trucks in 2005.

Federal party convention in Oldenburg ; Renate Künast speaking ( 2005 )

The DOJ and the Federal Trade Commission in 2005 advocated against state laws, supported by NAR, that disadvantage new kinds of brokers.

The IT Baseline Protection Catalogs, or IT-Grundschutz Catalogs, (" IT Baseline Protection Manual " before 2005 ) are a collection of documents from the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology ( FSI ), useful for detecting and combating security-relevant weak points in the IT environment ( IT cluster ).

He resigned as Co-Chairman of Freedom Works in March 2005 after the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) questioned his ties to Samir Vincent, a Northern Virginia oil trader implicated in the U. N. Oil-for-food scandal who pled guilty to four criminal charges, including illegally acting as an unregistered lobbyist of the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.

On 5 September 2005, the Federal Court of Australia issued a landmark ruling that Sharman, though not itself guilty of copyright infringement, had " authorized " Kazaa users illegally to swap copyrighted songs.

On 5 December 2005, the Federal Court of Australia ceased downloads of Kazaa in Australia after Sharman Networks failed to modify their software by the December 5 deadline.

In 2004 Nigeria ’ s Federal Roads Maintenance Agency ( FERMA ) began to patch the 32, 000-kilometre federal roads network, and in 2005 FERMA initiated a more substantial rehabilitation.

In 2005, the US Federal Trade Commission brought legal action against a firm that had claimed oil of oregano treated colds and flus, and that oil of oregano taken orally treated and relieved bacterial and viral infections and their symptoms, saying the representations were false or were not substantiated at the time the representations were made, and that they were therefore a deceptive practice and false advertisements.

On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agents had approached him prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001 and told him that the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him.

Data from Swiss Federal Statistical Office 2005 ; number of inhabitants in thousands.

* Federal Register April 2005 Section 508 related Federal Acquisition Rules

In 2005, a U. S. Federal Court ruled that intelligent design is a religious argument and is not science, and was being used to give pseudoscientific support for creationism, the religious belief in a designer.

Radio broadcast stations: AM: 4, 789 ; FM commercial stations: 6, 231 ; FM educational stations: 2, 672 ; FM translators & boosters: 3, 995 ; low-power FM stations: 675 ( as of December 31, 2005, according to the Federal Communications Commission )

Television broadcast stations: 9, 024 ( of which 1, 750 are full-power TV stations ; 592 are class-A TV stations ; 4, 537 are TV translators ; and 2, 145 are other low-power TV stations ) ( as of December 31, 2005, according to the Federal Communications Commission ); in addition, there are about 12, 000 cable TV systems.

* July 18 – L. Patrick Gray III, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director ( d. 2005 )

However, this step was condoned by the German Federal Constitutional Court as a legal instrument and was again applied ( by SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his Green allies ) in 2005.

Since May 2, 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) has classified her as a " domestic terrorist " and offered a $ 1 million reward for assistance in her capture.

As part of the fallout of the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 authorized the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) to designate a national Electric Reliability Organization ( ERO ).

PETA was further criticized in 2005 by United States Senator Jim Inhofe for having given grants several years earlier to Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ) and Earth Liberation Front ( ELF ) activists, two groups that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified as agents of domestic terrorism.

For example, this procedure was used in the Watergate scandal-related case, United States v. Nixon,, and in the 2005 decision involving the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, United States v. Booker,.

The following article about the history of the Lincoln Highway courtesy of Richard F. Weingroff, " The Lincoln Highway ", Office of Infrastructure, U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, May 7, 2005.

The unit was officially established on April 17, 1973 as a part of Germany's federal police agency, the Bundesgrenzschutz ( Federal Border Guard Service, renamed Bundespolizei or Federal Police in 2005 ).

* 2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* International Criminal Court ( party since 2005 )

" Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from behind Bars " ( 2005 ) ( ISBN 0759106436 ).

The case was re-investigated in early 2005, when the new law came into effect, and his case was referred to the Court of Appeal in November 2005 for permission for a new trial, which was granted.

In Northern Ireland the Criminal Justice Act 2003, effective 18 April 2005, makes certain " qualifying offence " ( including murder, rape, kidnapping, specified sexual acts with young children, specified drug offences, defined acts of terrorism, as well as in certain cases attempts or conspiracies to commit the foregoing ) subject to retrial after acquittal ( including acquittals obtained before passage of the Act ) if there is a finding by the Court of Appeals that there is " new and compelling evidence.

In Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, the Supreme Court heard arguments on November 1, 2005 and unanimously ruled in February 2006 that the U. S. federal government must allow the UDV to import and consume the tea for religious ceremonies under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* 2005 – US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of " intelligent design " in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

' Lower courts then set guidelines for identifying ' junk science ,' such as the 2005 opinion of United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge Easterbrook, ' Positive reports about magnetic water treatment are not replicable ; this plus the lack of a physical explanation for any effects are hallmarks of junk science.

* 2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich.

Although Weah was still threatening to take his claims to the Supreme Court if no evidence of fraud was found, Johnson-Sirleaf was declared winner on November 23, 2005, and took office on January 16, 2006.

Liechtenstein has resorted two times to international dispute settlement by the International Court of Justice, in the Nottebohm ( Liechtenstein v. Guatemala ) case against Guatemala in the 1950s and in a case concerning art property of the Liechtenstein family against Germany in 2005.

* 2005 – US Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in " national standards ,".

* 2005, Supreme Court Building, Singapore

In Florida, the state Supreme Court held in 2005 that no-contest convictions may be treated as prior convictions for the purposes of future sentencing.

In February 2005, a California Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the original verdict.

In 2005, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that police do not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm.

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

The case was heard in the High Court in London in July 2005 ; some embarrassment was caused to Byers when he admitted that an answer he had given to a House of Commons Select Committee was inaccurate, but on 14 October 2005 the judge found that there was no evidence that Byers had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office.

In February 2005, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. California that the California Department of Corrections ' unwritten practice of racially segregating prisoners in its prison reception centers – which California claimed was for inmate safety ( gangs in California, as throughout the U. S., usually organize on racial lines )— is to be subject to strict scrutiny, the highest level of constitutional review.

Satanism is now allowed in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces, despite much opposition from Christians, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States debated over protecting the religious rights of prison inmates after a lawsuit challenging the issue was filed to them.