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Alexandra Reeve Givens
Alexandra Reeve Givens, also known as Alex Givens, is an American technology policy lawyer and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology since May 2020, formerly Georgetown Law institute director, Senate Judiciary chief counsel, and daughter of Christopher Reeve.
Alexandre Giraud Jacques Antoine Mérignhac
Alexandre Giraud Jacques Antoine Mérignhac (1857–1927) was a French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Toulouse, known for his 1895 treatise on international arbitration and studies of the Hague Peace Conferences.
Alexandria Station (Northern Territory)
Alexandria Station, also called Alexandria Downs, is a Barkly Tableland cattle station in the Northern Territory, first leased in 1877 and the oldest, largest property of the North Australian Pastoral Company, running about 55,000 cattle.
Alexis Flores
Alexis Flores, Honduran fugitive also known as Mario Flores and Alex Contreras, was FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #487, wanted for the 2000 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia; arrested in Honduras in February 2026 and extradited in 2026.
Alexis Haines
Alexis Haines, born Alexis Neiers, is an American recovery advocate and memoirist who starred in E!'s Pretty Wild and was convicted of first degree burglary as a Bling Ring member, serving one month for the Orlando Bloom burglary.
Alf Ross
Alf Ross (Alf Niels Christian Ross, 1899-1979), Danish jurist and legal philosopher of Scandinavian legal realism; author of Om ret og retfærdighed/On Law and Justice and the prognosis theory of legal validity.
Alfie Solomons
Alfie Solomons, also Alfie Solomon, is the fictional Camden Town Jewish gang leader in Peaky Blinders, played by Tom Hardy from series 2 (2014), loosely based on a real gangster who was Darby Sabini's enforcer.
Alford plea
Alford plea (US law): a guilty plea, from North Carolina v. Alford (1970), in which the defendant maintains innocence while accepting conviction; requires voluntary, intelligent entry and a strong factual basis, and is forbidden in a few states.
Alfred Bourgeois
Alfred Bourgeois, Louisiana truck driver executed December 11, 2020 at Terre Haute for the 2002 torture-murder of his two-year-old daughter at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station; his Atkins intellectual-disability claim, based on IQ scores of 70 and 75, was denied.
Alfred Dreyfus
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French Jewish artillery captain, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and deported to Devil's Island; the Dreyfus Affair divided France until his 1906 exoneration by the Cour de cassation.
Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), German general and chief of the OKW Operations Staff, signed Germany's 1945 Reims surrender, was convicted on all four Nuremberg counts, and hanged October 16, 1946.
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, known as El Mochomo, is a Mexican drug trafficker who led the Beltrán Leyva Organization and was sentenced to life in a US prison in 2017.
Alfredo Palacios
Alfredo Palacios (1878–1965) was an Argentine lawyer, university reformer, and socialist politician who in 1904 became the first socialist deputy elected in Latin America, representing La Boca in Buenos Aires.
Algenon L. Marbley
Algenon L. Marbley, born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio since 1997, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Ali Bach Hamba
Ali Bach Hamba (عليّ باش حنبه, 1876–1918) was a Tunisian nationalist politician, lawyer, and journalist who led the Young Tunisians and founded the newspaper Le Tunisien in 1907.
Ali Zafar vs. Meesha Shafi
Ali Zafar vs. Meesha Shafi: Pakistani defamation litigation begun after Shafi's April 2018 sexual harassment tweet; Lahore sessions court awarded Zafar Rs5 million damages in March 2026, under LHC appeal.
Alia Moses
Alia Moses, born in 1962 in Eagle Pass, Texas, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Texas since 2002.
Alice Crimmins
Alice Crimmins (born 1941) is an American woman from Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, tried twice (1968, 1971) for the 1965 deaths of her children Eddie Jr. and Missy; only a manslaughter conviction survived appeal, and she was paroled in 1977.
Alice M. Batchelder
Alice M. Batchelder, also known as Alice Moore Batchelder, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2019.
Alice Marie Johnson
Alice Marie Johnson, American criminal justice reform advocate and former federal prisoner, served about 22 years of a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense before Trump commuted her sentence in 2018 and pardoned her in 2020; she became his pardon czar in 2025.
Alicia Kozakiewicz
Alicia "Kozak" Kozakiewicz, American internet safety advocate; abducted January 1, 2002 at 13 from Pittsburgh by online predator Scott Tyree, held four days in Virginia, rescued by the FBI; campaigns for Alicia's Law funding ICAC task forces.
Alien (law)
Alien (law): a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States under the INA; also called noncitizen. Covers categories (immigrant, nonimmigrant, refugee), the 1790 and 1870 naturalization acts, the 1798 Alien Acts, alien land laws, and strict scrutiny for state versus deferential review of federal alienage classifications.
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four 1798 Federalist laws signed by John Adams during the Quasi-War with France, raising the citizenship residency requirement to 14 years, authorizing deportation of aliens, and criminalizing criticism of the government.
Alienation of affections
Alienation of affections, a heartbalm tort also called the homewrecker law, lets a spouse sue a third party for destroying marital love. Surviving in Hawaii, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah after New Mexico's 2026 abolition.
Aliens Compliance Order
The Aliens Compliance Order was a directive issued by Ghana's government on November 18, 1969, requiring immigrants without valid residence permits to leave within fourteen days.
Aliʻiōlani Hale
Aliʻiōlani Hale, Honolulu's Hawaiʻi Supreme Court building at 417 S. King St., designed by Thomas Rowe as a palace for Kamehameha V, dedicated 1874, home of the Kamehameha I statue.
Alimony
Alimony, or spousal support, is court-ordered payment to a former spouse under a divorce instrument. Covers determination factors, US and California tax rules after 2018 and 2026, duration guidelines, and reform effects on labor supply and matching.
Alimony in the United States
Alimony in the United States, also called spousal support, is a court-ordered payment from one divorced spouse to the other, awarded in fewer than 15% of divorces.
Alina Habba
Alina Saad Habba, American lawyer, Donald Trump's personal attorney 2021-2025 and White House counselor, then interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey; ruled unlawfully appointed by district and appeals courts and resigned December 2025.
Alison J. Nathan
Alison J. Nathan, born 1972, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2022, appointed by President Biden.