In Reversal, US Court Allows Some Forced DNA Tests
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The US government can require certain criminals to submit to DNA testing after their release from prison, a divided US federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday in a reversal of an opinion it issued last year.
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A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites deemed by the state's prosecuting attorneys to be child pornography has been reversed by a U.S. federal court on free-speech grounds.
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Police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland suspend the use of a DNA test after the Omagh bomb verdict.
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A federal appeals court on Saturday reversed a lower court's ruling that Ohio voters could cast provisional ballots on Election Day anywhere in the county in which they are registered.
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Couple became suspects because of the forensic tests they had pressed for.
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The decision reverses the United Statesâ longstanding refusal to share the data, citing the need to protect intelligence sources.
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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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Hoping to solve and prevent more crimes, the federal government and a growing number of states are casting the DNA net wider by taking genetic samples from people accused but not convicted of breaking the law.
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ECHR could make DNA retention without conviction illegal Updated Lord Justice Sedley's proposal to put everyone in the UK on a DNA database would be dependent on a British man's case against the UK at the European Court of Human Rights, according to a privacy law expert.â¦
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Furthering a story that began in 2000, the US Court of Appeals has ruled that US District Court judge operated outside the realm of his jurisdiction by attempting to rule on a case with international ramifications.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal parolees may be required to provide blood samples for a national DNA database used to solve crimes, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled yesterday.
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A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday  lifted an order that kept Anna Nicole Smith's body from being  buried, saying that DNA required for a legal battle over her  baby daughter had already been obtained.
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In a case that could roil the US presidential race, the US Supreme Court will consider whether requiring voters to provide identification to cast a ballot is constitutional.
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A top court in Ukraine on Saturday overturned some legal changes intended to cut election fraud, a day before a re-run of a presidential vote that has become a test of democratic legitimacy and national identity.
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Women forced to have abortions can seek asylum in the US with their partners, a California court decides.
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Ukraine&#39;s Constitutional Court yesterday overturned a new amendment to the country&#39;s election laws that had been intended to minimize the chances for fraud, but it dismissed other
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Wiggy jurist wants a more inclusive society One of the UK's top judges has thrown a grenade into the smouldering debate around the national DNA database, saying that everyone in the UK - including visitors from overseas - should be on file.â¦