A Turkish court on Friday annulled the arrest warrants issued for 102 Turkish military officers over an alleged 2003 coup plot. The officers, including 25 generals and admirals, were arrested last month for allegedly participating in a coup plot referred to as “Operation Sledgehammer” after the Justice and Democracy Party (AKP) , which has Islamic [...]

Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice of the US Supreme Court Saturday. Kagan, the former US Solicitor General and dean of Harvard Law School , took part in two ceremonies —a private one for her friends and family, and a public ceremony. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath , in which [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to block the military trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . The Supreme Court issued a one-line order denying the Khadr’s petition for a stay. The order had no noted dissents and offered no explanation of the ruling. The trial is scheduled to begin August 10 [...]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Attorney General Jerry Brown and others filed motions Friday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California opposing a request to stay the court’s recent decision enjoining the enforcement of Proposition 8, the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The requested stay would disallow gay marriage in California until [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that prolonged use of global positioning systems (GPS) to monitor suspects’ vehicles violates the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. The appellate court found that there exists a reasonable expectation of privacy in the “whole of a person’s movements over [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) to stop segregating HIV-positive inmates . HRW claims the policy promotes stigma and discrimination because HIV-positive prisoners are housed in a separate maximum security facility, regardless of their sentence, and forced to serve longer sentences because they are excluded from many [...]

Suspected terrorist Adis Medunjanin pleaded not guilty Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York to charges of participating in a plot to detonate a bomb inside the New York City Subway. In January, Medunjanin pleaded not guilty to charges that he received terrorist training conspired with Najibullah Zazi last [...]

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum on Friday filed a response urging a federal court not to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the newly enacted health care reform law . The lawsuit was filed in March and has been joined by 19 other states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) . It [...]

Former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav , also known as “Duch,” has hired Cambodian lawyer Kang Ritheary to replace his previous lawyer, according to documents released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Friday. Kaing fired his international co-counsel, Maitre Roux, in early July after sending a letter to ECCC President [...]

The US State Department warned Thursday that the alienation of European Muslim communities through various laws and policies could fuel recruitment for terror groups. The Country Reports on Terrorism 2009 , an annual report the State Department is required to publish under federal law , is meant to provide a full accounting of terrorist activities [...]