The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) has used this ruling to expanded the "special needs doctrine" that carves out an exception to the Fourth Amendment for the broad collection and examination of Americans' data to track possible terrorists.
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The case concerns the route by which a prisoner may obtain biological DNA material for testing, to challenge his conviction; whether through a civil rights suit or a habeas corpus petition.