The UK Border Agency will trial fingerprinting and photographing foreign nationals applying for identity cards in post offices. The Home Office agency said it will charge an £8 fee to have their fingerprints and photograph taken at one of 17 crown post offices, while this will remain free at UK Border Agency or Identity and…
From skanks to douchebags: student internet speech suit back in court
Jim Moore reports: Avery Doninger will soon return to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the right of students across the country to speak their minds in blogs and text messages at stake. Once a 16-year-old high school junior who referred to school administrators as “douchebags” in an online blog post protesting the…
Football and Federalism: A Case Centers on NFL Drug Testing
Michael C. Dorf, Professor of Law at Cornell University, had a column on FindLaw this week: Last week, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dealt an apparent blow to the National Football League’s drug-testing policy. In Williams v. NFL, the court held that league’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA)…
Call to retain more DNA samples
The law on the retention of DNA samples in Scotland could soon be tightened by the closing of a “legal loophole”. Currently, people who accept “direct measures” such as fines, as an alternative to prosecution, cannot have their DNA kept in the police database. Nationalist MSP Stewart Maxwell plans to amend a bill at Holyrood…