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A federal appeals court has determined a federal judge was right to throw out a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld a decision throwing out a lawsuit challenging the funding, which President George W. Bush stopped and Obama allowed just months after entering office. The bringers of the lawsuit argued Obama’s executive order forcing taxpayer funding violated the 1996 Dickey-Wicker law that prohibits taxpayer of any scientific research that results in the destruction of human embryos, unborn children at...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Alcohol-related charges against an Indianapolis police officer who was accused of drunken driving in a fatal crash will be dropped after a judge ruled that proper procedures weren't followed in the investigation...

DNA can't be used in trial, judge says 03/10/2003 Associated Press BEAUMONT, Texas - A judge has barred the use of DNA evidence against a capital murder defendant, citing extreme negligence by the prosecution in sharing the evidence with the defense. Joe Edward LaRue, 39, faces the capital murder charge in connection with the Oct. 15, 1989, death of a co-worker. Donna Pentecost, 33, of Port Neches, was found dead in her yard. She had been sexually assaulted and her head crushed with a concrete block. State District Judge Layne Walker initially planned to postpone the scheduled March 17...