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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA, P.L. 101-336): U.S. federal civil rights law signed July 26, 1990 by George H. W. Bush; five titles cover employment, public services, public accommodations, telecommunications; broadened by the 2008 ADA Amendments Act.
Amicus curiae
Amicus curiae (plural amici curiae), Latin for "friend of the court," is a non-party to a case who files an amicus brief with the court's permission, most often in US appellate and Supreme Court litigation, governed by FRAP Rule 29 and SCOTUS Rule 37.
Amir H. M. Ali
Amir H. M. Ali, also known as Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Washington, D.C. since 2024.
Amit Mehta
Amit Priyavadan Mehta, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia since December 2014, born in Patan, India; presided over United States v. Google, ruling Google maintained an illegal search monopoly and issuing 2025 remedies.
Amit Soussana (עמית סוסנה)
Amit Soussana (עמית סוסנה), Israeli lawyer from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, held hostage 55 days by Hamas after October 7, 2023; first freed hostage to publicly describe sexual abuse in captivity, in a March 2024 New York Times interview; later a hostages advocate and International Women of Courage awardee.
Amnesty
Amnesty is an official clemency act exempting groups or classes from prosecution, usually for political offenses, distinct from individual pardons; used in peace processes but constrained by international human rights law, as in Peru, Iraq, and Thailand.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International, founded by Peter Benenson in London in 1961 after 'The Forgotten Prisoners', is a 10-million-member human rights movement known for prisoners of conscience, annual reports, and independence from governments.
Amos L. Mazzant III
Amos L. Mazzant III, born 1965, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 2014 and its chief judge since 2025.
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott are Florida men convicted of the 1983 murder of Carlos Orellana. They were later indicted for the rapes and murders of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams.
Amul Thapar
Amul Roger Thapar (born 1969, Detroit) is a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge, formerly the first South Asian American federal judge on the Eastern District of Kentucky bench, a Trump Supreme Court shortlister and textualist.
Amur Annexation
Amur Annexation: the 1858 Treaty of Aigun (璦琿條約) and 1860 Treaty of Peking (中俄北京條約), by which Qing China ceded the left Amur bank and the Ussuri region to Russia, unequal treaties in Chinese memory.
Amy Archer-Gilligan
Amy Archer-Gilligan (Amy Duggan, 1873-1962) ran the Archer Home for the elderly in Windsor, Connecticut, and was convicted in 1917 of arsenic-poisoning boarder Franklin Andrews; suspected of up to two dozen deaths, she inspired Arsenic and Old Lace.
Amy Berman Jackson
Amy Berman Jackson (born 1954, Baltimore) is a senior U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by Obama in 2011 and confirmed 97-0, known for the Manafort and Stone cases, Mueller report FOIA rulings, and Strzok and SNAP decisions.
Amy Chua
Amy Chua (born 1962) is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of World on Fire and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the 2011 memoir that popularized 'Tiger Mom' parenting and sparked global debate.
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett, US Supreme Court associate justice since October 2020 (Ginsburg seat), former Notre Dame Law professor and Seventh Circuit judge, Scalia clerk, originalist and textualist, confirmed 52–48.
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher (born 1974), the "Long Island Lolita," shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa, New York on May 19, 1992 during an affair with Joey Buttafuoco; she served nearly seven years in prison.
Amy J. St. Eve
Amy Joan St. Eve, born 1965, is an American judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals since 2018, after 16 years as a federal district judge in Illinois.
Amy M. Baggio
Amy Margaret Baggio, born 1973, is an American federal district judge in Oregon since 2024, appointed by President Biden after serving on the Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Amy M. Totenberg
Amy M. Totenberg, also known as Amy Mil Totenberg, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Georgia since 2021.
An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An Unbelievable Story of Rape, a 2015 ProPublica and Marshall Project investigation by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and inspired Netflix's Unbelievable.
Ana C. Reyes
Ana Cecilia Reyes, born 1974 in Uruguay, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the District of Columbia since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Ana Cumpănaș
Ana Cumpănaș (Anna Sage), the "Woman in Red," was a Romanian-born brothel madam who informed on John Dillinger for a $5,000 reward and promised help against deportation; the FBI killed Dillinger at the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, and she was deported to Romania, dying there in 1947.
Ana I. de Alba
Ana Isabel de Alba is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2023, appointed by President Biden.
Analisa N. Torres
Analisa Nadine Torres, born 1959 in New York, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2013.
Anand Satyanand
Sir Anand Satyanand (born 1944) is a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and ombudsman who served as the 19th Governor-General from 2006 to 2011, the first of Indian and Pacific ancestry.
Anatoly Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин)
Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин), born 1966 in Gorky, is a Russian Celticist, philologist, and cemetery researcher found in 2011 with 26 to 29 mummified bodies from graves in his Nizhny Novgorod flat; judged insane, he has been in compulsory psychiatric treatment since 2012.
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Юрійович Онопрієнко)
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Онопрієнко), the Beast of Ukraine or Terminator, Ukrainian serial killer convicted of 52 murders in 1989 and 1995–1996; death sentence commuted to life, died in Zhytomyr prison in 2013.
Anatoly Slivko
Anatoly Slivko (Анатолий Сливко) was a Soviet serial killer who murdered seven boys in Nevinnomyssk between 1964 and 1985 while leading a children's tourist club.
Anatoly Sobchak
Anatoly Sobchak (Anatoly Aleksandrovich Sobchak; 1937–2000) was a Soviet and Russian jurist and politician, the first mayor of Saint Petersburg from 1991 to 1996 who helped draft Russia's 1993 Constitution.
Ancer L. Haggerty
Ancer L. Haggerty, also known as Ancer Lee Haggerty, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of Oregon, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.