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Skinner v. Switzer

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.


Carroll O. Switzer

In early 1949, President Harry S. Truman announced his plan to nominate Switzer to fill a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa vacated by Charles A. Dewey.

Robert M. Switzer

He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1919).

Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association

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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