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L. Lin Wood
L. Lin Wood is a retired Atlanta defamation attorney known for representing Richard Jewell, the Ramseys, and Gary Condit, and for 2020 election litigation that led him to surrender his Georgia law license in 2023.
La Catedral
La Catedral: prison built in Envigado, Colombia, by Pablo Escobar under his 1991 surrender deal with the Gaviria government; he lived there in luxury for 13 months before escaping in July 1992; site now disputed by religious foundations.
La Familia Michoacana
La Familia Michoacana (LFM) is a Mexican drug cartel founded 2005-2006 in Michoacán by defectors from Los Zetas and the Milenio Cartel; known for pseudo-religious ideology, extortion, and violence, it fragmented in 2011 into the Knights Templar and persists through La Nueva Familia Michoacana and United Cartels.
La Línea (gang)
La Línea ("The Line") is a Mexican criminal group founded in the early 2000s by police officers in Ciudad Juárez as the Juárez Cartel's enforcement arm; it fought Sinaloa in 2008–2011, was linked to the 2019 LeBarón massacre, and now dominates parts of Chihuahua.
La Vergne police department sex scandal
La Vergne police sex scandal: 2022-2024 Tennessee misconduct case in which five La Vergne PD officers and Chief Burrel "Chip" Davis were fired, Maegan Hall settled a federal lawsuit for $500,000 in March 2024, and no criminal charges were filed.
Labeling theory
Labeling theory, or social reaction theory, is a criminological perspective from symbolic interactionism holding that deviance results from others applying labels, driving secondary deviance via stigma.
Labour law
Labour law: the legislation and regulations defining employers' and workers' rights, individually and collectively. Also called employment law. Covers the employment relationship, collective bargaining, ILO standards since the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, and labour law reform assistance.
Lacey A. Collier
Lacey A. Collier (born 1935) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Florida since 2003.
Laches (equity)
Laches (equity), also called estoppel by laches, is an equitable defense barring relief when a claimant's unreasonable delay prejudices the opposing party; distinct from statutes of limitations, narrowed by Petrella (2014) in U.S. copyright law.
Lady Edwina Grosvenor
Lady Edwina Grosvenor, English criminologist and prison philanthropist, daughter of the sixth Duke of Westminster, founder of One Small Thing and Hope Street, Clink investor, Women's Justice Board member.
Lady Justice
Lady Justice, or Justitia (Iustitia), is the allegorical robed woman with scales, sword, and usually a blindfold personifying justice in Western law; blindfolded since the 16th century, descending from Ma'at, Themis, Dike, and Roman Justitia.
Laesio enormis
Laesio enormis, a Roman-law contract doctrine from Diocletian's constitutions of 285 and 293 AD and Justinian's Codex C.4.44.2, lets a seller rescind a land sale priced below half its true value; it survives in the French Code civil and Austrian ABGB.
Lagos Colony
Lagos Colony, British crown colony on Lagos Island from the 1861 Treaty of Cession to its 1906 merger with Southern Nigeria; founded to suppress the slave trade, it became 'The Liverpool of West Africa' and the base of British rule in Nigeria.
LaGrand case
LaGrand (Germany v. United States of America), ICJ case 104, concerned two German nationals executed in Arizona without Vienna Convention Article 36 consular notification; the 2001 judgment first held ICJ provisional measures binding and ordered review and reconsideration.
Laird
Laird, Scots word for a Scottish landed estate owner, equivalent to the English squire; from Old English hlaford. A courtesy description, not nobility; souvenir plot sales confer no legal title.
Laisha Michelle Oseguera González
Laisha Michelle Oseguera González (born 2001), youngest child of CJNG leader El Mencho and Rosalinda González Valencia; accused in the 2021 Zapopan Navy kidnapping, obtained an amparo, and owns the café El Rincón La Chulis in Perris, California; never criminally charged.
Lake Bodom murders
Lake Bodom murders (Bodominjärven surmat): unsolved June 1960 killing of three teenage campers in Espoo, Finland; survivor Nils Gustafsson was charged in 2004 and acquitted in 2005.
Laken Riley Act
Laken Riley Act, Public Law 119-1 (S. 5), US federal immigration law signed January 29, 2025, mandating DHS detention of noncitizens charged with or arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, or related offenses, and granting state attorneys general standing to sue federal officials.
Lala Lajpat Rai (लाला लाजपत राय)
Lala Lajpat Rai (लाला लाजपत राय), 1865–1928, Sher-e-Punjab, Indian nationalist of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio, Arya Samaj leader, Punjab National Bank founder, died after Simon Commission lathi charge.
Lamb Funeral Home scandal
Lamb Funeral Home scandal: 1980s Pasadena, California mortuary case in which David Sconce ran mass cremations, commingled ashes, and sold organs and dental gold, prompting California cremation regulation reforms.
Lance E. Walker
Lance Edward Walker, born in 1972, is a United States district judge in Maine, appointed by President Trump in 2018 and chief judge since 2024.
Lance Ito
Lance Allan Ito, known as Judge Ito, is a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge who presided over the televised 1995 O.J. Simpson double murder trial.
Lance M. Africk
Lance M. Africk (born 1951) is an American jurist, a US district judge in Louisiana appointed by George W. Bush in 2002 who took senior status in 2024.
Land acquisition in India
Land acquisition in India: compulsory state acquisition of private land under eminent domain. Governed by the Land Acquisition Act 1894 until the RFCTLARR Act 2013 (effective 1 January 2014), which added consent, social impact assessment, and market-linked compensation.
Land court (Poland)
A land court (Polish: sąd ziemski) was a nobility court of first instance in pre-partition Poland and Lithuania, hearing civil cases among settled nobility until 1795.
Land development
Land development, also called land use change or land conversion, is the process of acquiring, subdividing, and building on land to raise its value. Covers regulation, environmental impacts, farmland conversion, and planning.
Land reform in India
Land reform in India: post-1947 abolition of zamindari intermediaries, tenancy reform, land ceilings, Bhoodan, and regional redistribution (Kerala, West Bengal), now extended to DILRMP land-records digitization.
Land registration
Land registration is the official recording of legally recognized interests in land, usually as part of a cadastral system; a reliable register lets owners sell, let, or mortgage land more easily.
Land tenure
Land tenure: the legal regime defining who can own, lease, or use land, for how long, and under what conditions. Covers feudal origins, freehold, leasehold, and commonhold tenures, customary systems, tenure security, and SDG indicators 1.4.2 and 5.a.1.
Land's Advocate of Holland
The Land's Advocate of Holland (Dutch: landsadvocaat) was the salaried legal adviser and business manager of the States of Holland from 1480 to 1619, when the office became the Grand Pensionary.