Law and justice

Al Indelicato

Alphonse "Sonny Red" Indelicato, Bonanno crime family capo, murdered May 5, 1981 with captains Giaccone and Trinchera in the Three Captains Murders; father of Anthony "Bruno" Indelicato; charged in the 1985 Mafia Commission case.

Al Neri

Al Neri (Albert Neri) is a fictional Corleone family enforcer in Puzo's The Godfather novel and films, a former NYC police officer, Michael Corleone's bodyguard, killer of Moe Greene and Barzini, later underboss, played by Richard Bright.

Al-Bayyani

Al-Bayyani (البياني) was an Andalusi jurist and hadith scholar of Cordoba, born after 835 CE and died in 276 AH, a self-described mujtahid who rejected taqlid and managed Emir Muhammad's official documents.

Al-Fami

Al-Fami (الفامي), fully Abu Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab al-Farisi al-Fami al-Shirazi, was a Shafi'i jurist and mufti who taught at Baghdad's Nizamiyya college from 1090; born in Shiraz in 1023, he died there in 1106.

Al-Hamawi

Al-Hamawi (الحموي), Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Muzaffar al-Shami, was a Shafi'i jurist and ascetic who served as chief judge of Baghdad from 478 AH until his death in 488 AH.

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Sijzi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Sijzi (الخليل بن أحمد السجزي) was a Sunni Hanafi jurist, preacher, and judge who served as qadi of Samarkand in the 10th century.

Al-Khunji Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Namawir ibn Abd al-Malik

Al-Khunji Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Namawir ibn Abd al-Malik (الخونجي) was a Shafi'i jurist and logician who served as chief judge of Egypt, dying in 1248.

Al-Marwarrudhi

Al-Marwarrudhi, Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Bishr, was a Shafi'i qadi and mufti of Basra from Marwarrudh in Khurasan, who died around 362 AH (972 CE).

Al-Nasa'i (Shafi'i jurist, d. 1027)

Al-Nasa'i (النسائي), fully Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zuhayr ibn Akhtal al-Nasa'i, was a Shafi'i jurist of Nasa titled "shaykh al-Shafi'iyya"; he died in 1027, and his grave in Hamadhan is visited.

Al-Nu'man ibn Abd al-Salam al-Taymi

Al-Nu'man ibn Abd al-Salam al-Taymi (النعمان بن عبد السلام التيمي) was a Sunni jurist and hadith transmitter, styled the mufti of Isfahan, who died in 799.

Al-Nuqani

Al-Nuqani (النوقاني), Abu al-Mafakhir Muhammad ibn Abi Ali ibn Abi Nasr, was a sixth-century AH Shafi'i jurist from Nuqan in Khurasan who taught in Baghdad and died in Kufa in 592 AH.

Al-Rafi'i (al-Jili, qadi of Baalbek and Damascus, d. 1244)

Al-Rafi'i al-Jili (Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Wahid) was a Shafi'i jurist and judge who served as qadi of Baalbek and then Damascus, dying in 1244.

Al-Zaki Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi

Al-Zaki Ali ibn Muhammad al-Qurashi (الزكي علي بن محمد القرشي) was a Shafi'i qadi of Damascus, born in 507 AH, who died in Baghdad in 564 AH.

Alabama Claims

The Alabama claims were U.S. demands against Britain for damages by British-built Confederate raiders such as the Alabama, Florida, and Shenandoah, settled by the 1872 Geneva Tribunal under the 1871 Treaty of Washington with a $15.5 million award.

Alabama v. Jones

Alabama v. Jones: shorthand for several unrelated Alabama cases against defendants named Jones; best documented is Ex parte State of Alabama v. Jeremy B. Jones (Ala. 2011), a capital-murder postconviction mandamus ruling.

Alameddine crime network

Alameddine crime network: family-based Western Sydney organised crime group, rival of the Hamzy family since October 2020; police allege drug importation, extortion, murder for hire; leadership fled to Lebanon in 2023; denied by associates.

Alan B. Johnson

Alan B. Johnson, also known as Alan Bond Johnson, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Wyoming since 1985.

Alan Bates (subpostmaster)

Alan Bates, British former subpostmaster of Llandudno, founder of the Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance and lead claimant in Bates v Post Office, the group litigation exposing the Horizon IT scandal.

Alan D. Lourie

Alan D. Lourie is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit since 1990, appointed by President George H. W. Bush.

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz (born 1938), American criminal defense lawyer and Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School. Known for appellate defenses of Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson, the Epstein 2008 plea deal, Trump's 2020 impeachment defense, and a failed $300 million CNN defamation suit.

Alan E. Norris

Alan E. Norris, also known as Alan Eugene Norris, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2001.

Alan Eagleson

Alan Eagleson, born Robert Eagleson in 1933, was a Canadian lawyer, the first prominent NHL player agent, founding executive director of the NHLPA, and convicted of fraud in 1998.

Alan Jackson (lawyer)

Alan Jay Jackson, Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer and former LA County prosecutor (Major Crimes Division) who won the Phil Spector murder conviction, ran for DA in 2012, and later defended Harvey Weinstein, Karen Read, and Nick Reiner.

Alan Peter Cayetano

Alan Peter Cayetano (born 1970) is a Filipino lawyer-politician: Taguig-Pateros congressman, senator (2007–2017 and 2022–2028), foreign secretary (2017–2018), House speaker (2019–2020), and Senate president for three weeks in 2026.

Alan S. Gold

Alan Stephen Gold (born 1944) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 1997.

Alan Wilson (South Carolina politician)

Alan Wilson is an American Republican politician who has served as Attorney General of South Carolina since 2011 and is the 2026 Republican nominee for governor.

Alaska boundary dispute

Alaska boundary dispute: US–Canada disagreement over the Alaska Panhandle border set by the 1825 Anglo-Russian treaty and inherited with the 1867 Alaska purchase; settled October 20, 1903 by the six-member Alaska Boundary Tribunal in London, which upheld the American interpretation.

Alaska Purchase (Продажа Аляски)

Alaska Purchase (Продажа Аляски): the 1867 Treaty of Cession, also called Seward's Folly, by which Russia sold Russian America to the United States for $7.2 million in gold, about two cents an acre, signed March 30, 1867.

Albanian mafia

Albanian mafia: contested label for Albanian-speaking criminal networks from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro active in cocaine, heroin and cannabis trafficking across Europe and Latin America, organized in fis clans.