A divison of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed remaining charges against former New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) CEO Richard Grasso on Tuesday. Former NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had brought...

A proposed Ethiopian law regulating non-governmental organizations, which it terms Civil Society Organizations (CSO), would severely undermine human rights efforts in the country, according to two separate reports issued Tuesday by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) [PDF...

The Supreme Court of Rhode Island Tuesday overturned a 2006 jury verdict holding paint manufacturers liable for contamination caused by lead-based paint. The court rejected state arguments that the paint companies had created...

The Shanghai People's Higher Court will broadcast its hearings online, a Shanghai judge announced Tuesday. China began televising live court cases in 1998, and the internet broadcasts are the newest element of its effort to increase judicial...

A report from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found that while US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not responsible for the 2006 deaths of...

Millions of Swedish citizens have filed electronic petitions against the country's newly approved electronic wiretapping law , according to news reports Wednesday. The law was narrowly approved earlier this month...

US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has criticized the Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) warrantless searches and seizures of travelers' laptops and other digital devices at the US border, calling the searches an unacceptable invasion of privacy...

A Chilean judge Monday sentenced General Manuel Contreras to two consecutive life terms in prison for a 1974 car bombing that killed another general and his wife. At the time of the bombing, Contreras was the head...

The Italian Court of Cassation Monday overturned the convictions of six Italians, including Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi, for distributing anti-Roma literature in 2001. The court found that the men were motivated by a belief that all Roma...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday released declassified portions of last month's decision that a US Combatant Status Review Tribunal had improperly designated a Chinese Uighur Muslim...