In Reversal, U.S. Court Allows Some Forced DNA Tests
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The U.S. government can require  certain criminals to submit to DNA testing after their release  from prison, a divided U.S. federal appeals court ruled on  Wednesday in a reversal of an opinion it issued last year.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower ruling in favor of a cosmetics company that contended a competitor was unfairly using the name of its tattooing ink.
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TUCSCON, Ariz.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  lifted a block on a controversial Arizona law aimed at  restricting government services for illegal immigrants.
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A Supreme Court decision makes it easier to remove potential jurors who express ambivalence about the death penalty.
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DNA testing would be expanded to help clear the innocent and snare the guilty, particularly in death-penalty cases, under a long-stalled bill passed on Tuesday by the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Police said Friday they were suspending the use of a highly sensitive form of DNA testing criticized by a judge who acquitted the only person charged with murder in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
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Voting 9 to 0, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the federal appeals court in New York that found the system for choosing nominees to the stateâs trial court unconstitutional.
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Rape victims and convicted felons would both have greater access to DNA testing under legislation the House passed Wednesday.
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A DNA match, the investigative break that has solved countless cases, gave Montgomery County detectives the evidence they needed last year to charge a convicted felon with raping a woman in 1993.
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The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-born terrorism suspects.
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The Supreme Court steered clear of a dispute over gay adoptions on Monday, energizing conservatives who want other states to copy Florida's one-of-a-kind ban on gays adopting children.
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A judicial panel flip-flops, finding that workers have constitutional rights when it comes to government searches of their employer-provided computers. In 27B Stroke 6.
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DNA taken from a child rape victim cleared a 23-year-old man charged in the case, prompting prosecutors to ask Wednesday for the charges to be dismissed.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for some immigrants convicted of drug possession under state law to remain in the United States rather than being subject to deportation.
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A murder charge filed this year based on DNA tests unavailable when the victim was strangled in 1980 is being dropped because more testing made the case difficult to prove, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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U.S. health officials said on   Tuesday they were re-evaluating rules that allow the testing of   unapproved emergency treatments without patient consent, a   practice that came under fire in recent studies of potential   blood substitutes.
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TUCSON, Ariz.  - A federal judge lifted a block on  a controversial Arizona law on Wednesday forcing state  officials to begin restricting some government benefits to  illegal immigrants.