Legal Opinion
Norman C. Green, Jr., Donald Lee, Glenn Turner, and Dennis E. Jones-El v. Gerald A. Berge and James E. Doyle, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 2004No. 01-4080, 01-4081, 02-1346PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
The four plaintiffs — all felons serving prison terms at Wisconsin’s Supermax penitentiary — filed this suit challenging a Wisconsin law which compels them to submit a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample for analysis and storage in a data bank. The plaintiffs contend that taking samples of their DNA pursuant to the law is an unconstitutional search and seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The district court dismissed the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, and today we resolve the plaintiffs’ appeal.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
- United States v. Martinez-FuerteSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Vernonia School District 47J v. ActonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- National Treasury Employees Union v. Von RaabSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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