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U.S. Supreme Court OKs taking DNA from those arrested
— The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for police around the country to take DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes, a major step toward expanding a national database that will match new suspects to evidence from old crime...Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Justice System, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Breyer
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U.S. Supreme Court authorizes post-arrest DNA collection
The Baltimore SunA divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police in Maryland and elsewhere can continue the warrantless collection of DNA from people arrested — but not convicted — of serious crimes. The 5-4 decision upheld a state law that allows...Tags: Justice System, Samuel A. Alito, Law Enforcement, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Breyer
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Supreme Court allows police to take DNA from criminal suspects
WASHINGTON -- The police may take a DNA sample from people arrested for serious crimes, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a major victory for law enforcement and crime victims. The 5-4 decision is likely to make the taking of DNA samples as common as...
Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Anthony Kennedy, FBI, Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry
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Supreme Court lifts time limit on some 'actual innocence' appeals
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a second chance Tuesday to prisoners who come up with strong new evidence of their innocence, but who have waited too long to file an appeal. In a 5-4 decision, the justices lifted the one-year time limit for...
Tags: Justice System, Samuel A. Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Justice System, Samuel A. Alito, Gays and Lesbians, Crime, Law and Justice, Antonin Scalia
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Gays and Lesbians, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Voting, Crime, Law and Justice
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The stakes before the court
WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try. The two big cases being argued this...
Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Gays and Lesbians, Crime, Law and Justice, Family
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Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions"
Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions" By Elizabeth Sherwood North Central Michigan College student There are many people who have played an important role in the journey to equality for all. The most notable of those people...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups, Abraham Lincoln, Colleges and Universities, Racism
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Samuel A. Alito, Justice System, Stephen Breyer, Crime, Law and Justice
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Plant Openings, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Stephen Breyer
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Justice System, Gays and Lesbians, Crime, Law and Justice, Family
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Why North Carolina can't have its own official church
In recent days my Facebook feed has been littered with links to stories about a bill in the North Carolina Legislature that would allow the state to establish its own religion. Here was another example, my outraged friends said, of Bible Belt...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Justice System, Religion and Belief, Politics, Judges
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