Washington (CNN) -- Aldo the German shepherd and his human companions in law enforcement won an important Supreme Court appeal on Tuesday over vehicle searches for drugs and contraband.

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Some have been duly celebrated, like Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), author of the remarkable A Sand County Almanac (1949), of Chief Justice William O.

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This particular battle between the Florida high court and the U.S. Supreme Court boiled down to whether Aldo, the drug-sniffing dog that signaled the presence of illegal drugs in this case, had a history of signaling the presence of such drugs even in many cases where no drugs were found.

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At trial, the court denied a Motion to Suppress but on appeal the Florida Supreme Court reversed, holding that in order to reach the level of probable cause, the State needed to demonstrate the reliability of Aldo through such factors as field-performance records showing how many times the dog had falsely alerted.

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Two years later he snapped up a larger take-and-bake pizza outfit, Papa Aldo's out of Portland, Ore.

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His move to Italy a decade later came as Maurizio was selling his half of the business to the Bahrain-based Investcorp, which had already acquired the half belonging to Aldo and his sons in the late 1980s.

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What John King did when I was here last was fantastic, Aldo (John Aldridge) got to the League Cup final and Brian Little got them into the play-offs.

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Mr. Andreotti was prime minister of that coalition when Aldo Moro, a fellow Christian Democrat leader, was kidnapped in March 1978 by the Red Brigades, a left-leaning terrorist group.

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