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Harish Salve (हरीश साळवे)
Harish Salve (हरीश साळवे), born 1955 in Nagpur, is an Indian Senior Advocate (1992) and former Solicitor General of India (1999-2002), now also a King's Counsel at London's Blackstone Chambers, known for the Vodafone tax case, the Kulbhushan Jadhav ICJ case, and international arbitration.
Harley Davidson Guindon
Harley Davidson Guindon, known as Harley Guindon, is a Canadian clothing salesman from Oshawa, Ontario, son of Satan's Choice founder Bernie Guindon and a former Hells Angels vice-president.
Harmeet Dhillon
Harmeet K. Dhillon, Sikh American lawyer from Chandigarh, founded Dhillon Law Group and the Center for American Liberty, led California GOP and RNC roles, and became DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in April 2025.
Harmonized System
The Harmonized System (HS) is the WCO's international six-digit goods classification under the 1988 HS Convention, used for tariffs, trade statistics, rules of origin, and negotiations; HS 2028, its eighth edition, takes effect 1 January 2028.
Harold D. Mooty III
Harold D. Mooty III, born Harold Dean Mooty, III, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2025.
Harold H. Greene
Harold H. Greene (1923–2000) was a United States district judge in Washington, DC, who presided over United States v. AT&T, the case that broke up the Bell System.
Harold Shipman
Harold Shipman, British GP and serial killer, convicted 2000 of murdering 15 patients with diamorphine; the Shipman Inquiry under Dame Janet Smith concluded he killed about 250 patients before his 2004 death in Wakefield prison.
Harold Wayne Nichols
Harold Wayne Nichols, Tennessee death row inmate executed December 11, 2025 for the 1988 rape and murder of Chattanooga student Karen Pulley, after pleading guilty and 35 years of appeals.
Harpe brothers
The Harpe brothers, Micajah "Big Harpe" and Wiley "Little Harpe," were American frontier outlaws who murdered at least 20 people across Tennessee and Kentucky in 1797 and 1799.
Harriet Harman
Baroness Harriet Harman (KC) is a British Labour politician, MP for Peckham/Camberwell and Peckham 1982–2024, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, twice acting leader, first female Solicitor General, and now UK Special Envoy for Women and Girls.
Harriet Miers
Harriet Ellan Miers, American lawyer and White House counsel under George W. Bush; first woman president of the Dallas and Texas bar associations; her 2005 Supreme Court nomination to replace O'Connor was withdrawn October 28, 2005 amid bipartisan opposition, and Alito was confirmed instead.
Harris L. Hartz
Harris L. Hartz, born in 1947 in Baltimore, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2001.
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914), also called the Harrison Act or Harrison Narcotic Act, was the first major U.S. federal drug law, taxing and registering handlers of opium and coca products and becoming, through court rulings, the foundation of American drug prohibition until 1970.
Harry Aleman
Harry "The Hook" Aleman (1939–2010) was a Chicago Outfit hit man convicted in 1997 of the 1972 murder of William Logan, retried after a 1977 acquittal bought with a $10,000 bribe.
Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1970-1994, Nixon appointee, former Mayo Clinic counsel, author of Roe v. Wade, known for his shift from conservative to liberal jurisprudence.
Harry Connick Sr.
Harry Connick Sr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr., 1926-2024), New Orleans district attorney for Orleans Parish 1973-2003, longest-serving in city history; defeated Jim Garrison; central figure in Connick v. Thompson Brady case; father of Harry Connick Jr.
Harry J. Anslinger
Harry J. Anslinger (1892–1975) was the first and longest-serving Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930–1962, architect of the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the Boggs Act, and the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
Harry Kendall Thaw
Harry Kendall Thaw (1871-1947), Pittsburgh railroad-heir millionaire, murdered architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906 over White's affair with his wife Evelyn Nesbit; his two trials, the first 'trial of the century,' ended in an insanity acquittal.
Harry Maione
Harry "Happy" Maione (1908–1942), Brooklyn gangster, led the Ocean Hill Hooligans and killed for Murder, Inc.; executed at Sing Sing February 19, 1942 for the Rudnick murder.
Harry Pierpont
Harry "Pete" Pierpont (1902-1934), Muncie, Indiana bank robber, mentor and organizer of the Dillinger gang; freed Dillinger from the Lima, Ohio jail, captured in Tucson January 1934, executed in Ohio's electric chair October 17, 1934.
Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates
Harry S. Truman Supreme Court candidates: the four justices Truman appointed, 1945-1949, namely Harold Burton, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Tom Clark, and Sherman Minton, all confirmed, mostly non-judicial allies.
Harry T. Edwards
Harry T. Edwards, also known as Harry Thomas Edwards, is an American jurist and senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf of Barnes, British judge: Master of the Rolls 1996–2000, Lord Chief Justice 2000–2005, author of the Woolf Reforms and Civil Procedure Rules, and non-permanent Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal judge.
Hart family murders
Hart family murders: 2018 murder-suicide in which Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove their SUV off a California cliff with six adopted children, after years of abuse reports across three states.
Harvard International Law Journal
Harvard International Law Journal (HILJ), a student-run Harvard Law School journal publishing international, comparative, and foreign affairs law scholarship; oldest and most-cited student-edited international law journal, print plus HILJ Online, annual symposium.
Harvey Bartle III
Harvey Bartle III, born 1941, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Harvey E. Schlesinger
Harvey E. Schlesinger, born Harvey Erwin Schlesinger, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Harvey Glatman
Harvey Murray Glatman, the Glamour Girl Slayer and Lonely Hearts Killer, was an American serial killer (1927–1959) who posed as a freelance photographer to lure, bind, photograph, and strangle three women in Southern California, and was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber on September 18, 1959.
Harvey Logan
Harvey Alexander Logan, alias Kid Curry (1867–1904), was an American Old West outlaw with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, credited with eight or nine killings, captured in Knoxville in 1901, and dead by reported suicide after a 1904 Colorado train robbery.
Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases
Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases: criminal prosecutions and civil claims against the Miramax co-founder after October 2017 New York Times and New Yorker reporting; convictions in New York and California, a 2024 reversal, retrials, and the #MeToo movement.