United States Ninth Circuit

In an action claiming that California state prison inmates could not constitutionally be required to provide blood samples for DNA identification under California’s DNA and Forensic Identification Database and Data Bank Act, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where the Fourth Amendment did not preclude the collection of blood samples from prison inmates for DNA identification.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2011
• Published 01/04/2011

Judges

• A. Wallace Tashima

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George Hamilton