The anesthetic dosage delivered under Ohio's lethal injection protocol is sufficient to prevent the condemned inmate from suffering during an execution, according to Tuesday testimony from an anesthesiologist during a court hearing on the constitutionality of Ohio's...

The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an insurance company was not required to pay for water damage caused when New Orleans levees breached after Hurricane Katrina . Homeowner Joseph Sher sued Lafayette Insurance Company...

The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday issued a custody order for a former Bosnian Serb special police officer suspected of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline,...

Indonesian Internet providers blocked access Tuesday to file-sharing websites including YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace , one week after a government order sought to prevent the transmission of a controversial anti-Islamic film created by far-right Dutch...

Two rights groups have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Arizona challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's Proposition 100 , which denies bail to illegal immigrants accused of committing serious felonies....

JURIST was nominated Tuesday for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2008. Called the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts...

A High Court judge in Harare agreed Tuesday to expedite a lawsuit seeking to compel the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) to immediately release the results of the nation's March 29 presidential elections , but continued to refrain from...

The Switzerland Foreign Ministry has barred former ICTY chief prosecutor and current Swiss ambassador to Argentina Carla Del Ponte from publicly promoting her new book "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals," according...

The United Nations has a "moral duty to act on the lessons of Rwanda," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in an address to mark the fourteenth anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued five former San Diego city officials in federal court Monday, alleging they committed securities fraud by failing to disclose funding shortfalls in the city's pension and health care plans to potential...