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Lindsey A. Freeman
Lindsey A. Freeman, also known as Lindsey Ann Freeman, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of North Carolina since 2025.
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Olin Graham was a Republican senator from South Carolina from 2003 until his death in 2026; he also helped prosecute the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton.
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (Alice Lynne Murchinson, born 1948, Whakatane, NZ) was wrongly convicted in 1982 of murdering baby Azaria, taken by a dingo at Uluru; exonerated 1988, dingo finding 2012.
Lines of Torres Vedras
Lines of Torres Vedras (Linhas de Torres Vedras): fortified defensive lines built 1809-1810 north of Lisbon by Wellington against Napoleon's armies; 152 works, 600 guns, 85 km; Masséna's 1810 invasion halted.
Lingchi (凌迟)
Lingchi (凌迟), or "death by a thousand cuts," was imperial China's most severe execution, codified from the Liao dynasty onward for crimes like rebellion and parricide, and abolished on 24 April 1905 by Wu Tingfang and Shen Jiaben.
Linklaters
Linklaters is a global law firm founded in London in 1838, now a limited liability partnership with 30 offices in 20 countries, about 550 partners, £2.5 billion fiscal 2026 revenue, and leadership under Aedamar Comiskey and Paul Lewis.
Lionel Tate
Lionel Tate, Florida case of a 12-year-old tried as an adult for the 1999 killing of Tiffany Eunick; youngest reported modern life sentence, reversed in 2003 on competency grounds, later 30-year term for probation violation.
Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd
Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd [1991] 2 AC 548, House of Lords case establishing unjust enrichment at common law and first recognising the change of position defence, where solicitors recovered stolen money gambled at a casino.
Liquidated damages
Liquidated damages (agreed damages, stipulated sums) are contract clauses fixing in advance the money payable for breach. Enforceable at common law only as genuine pre-estimates of loss, not penalties; civil law systems instead moderate excessive sums.
Liquidation
Liquidation (winding up) is the terminal corporate insolvency procedure: assets are sold, proceeds distributed to creditors by statutory priority, and the company dissolved. Distinguished from administration, which attempts rescue; forms include CVL, compulsory, and members' voluntary liquidation.
Lis pendens
Lis pendens (Latin, "suit pending"): a court's control over property in litigation and the recorded notice of pendency clouding real property title, or the doctrine barring parallel identical lawsuits. Sources: Cornell Wex, Florida § 48.23, Carner v. Singer.
Lisa Bloom
Lisa Bloom is an American civil rights attorney, daughter of Gloria Allred, known for representing women against powerful men (O'Reilly, Cosby, Trump accusers), founding The Bloom Firm, and her 2017 Weinstein advising controversy.
Lisa G. Wood
Lisa G. Wood, also known as Lisa Godbey Wood, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Georgia since 2007.
Lisa Gill
Justice Lisa Gill is an Indian judge, Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court from 25 April 2026 and its first woman Chief Justice, formerly a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court appointed 31 March 2014.
Lisa Jo Chamberlin
Lisa Jo Chamberlin, Mississippi's only woman on death row, was sentenced to death in 2006 for the 2004 Hattiesburg murders of Vernon Hulett and Linda Heintzelman, whose bodies were found in a Kansas freezer; appeals, including Batson and Andrew v. White claims, have been denied.
Lisa McVey
Lisa McVey Noland is an American law enforcement officer who at 17 survived a 1984 abduction by serial killer Bobby Joe Long and helped solve his murders.
Lisa Monaco
Lisa O. Monaco, American lawyer; 39th U.S. Deputy Attorney General (2021–2025), first woman Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Obama Homeland Security Advisor 2013–2017, now Microsoft president of global affairs.
Lisa W. Wang
Lisa Wen-Jia Wang (born 1980) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
List of Alcatraz escape attempts
Alcatraz escape attempts: 14 separate attempts by 36 men from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, 1934-1963, including the 1946 Battle of Alcatraz and the unsolved June 1962 escape of Morris and the Anglin brothers.
List of amendments of the Constitution of India
List of amendments of the Constitution of India: formal changes to India's supreme law since 1950 under Article 368. Covers the First Amendment (1951), 42nd, 73rd, 74th, 99th through 106th Amendments, and the Kesavananda Bharati basic-structure limit.
List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States
The list of amendments to the Constitution of the United States covers all 27 ratified amendments, added under Article V since the Bill of Rights in 1791.
List of anti-sex offender attacks in the United States
Anti-sex offender attacks in the United States, also called vigilante violence against registrants, are assaults, vandalism, and murders of people listed on sex offender registries; a research database records 279 incidents from 1983 to 2015, including killings by Michael Mullen and Patrick Drum.
List of ATF controversies
ATF controversies: Waco 1993 raid, Operation Fast and Furious gunwalking, Garland v. Cargill bump stock ruling, brace and dealer rule injunctions, zero-tolerance policy replacement, Webloc surveillance cancellation, and GAO oversight findings.
List of Australian bilateral treaties on extradition and criminal matters
Australia's bilateral treaties on extradition and criminal matters: extradition treaties under the Extradition Act 1988 and over 25 mutual assistance treaties under the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987, with published country lists.
List of brothels in Nevada
List of brothels in Nevada: legal, county-licensed houses of prostitution, permitted only in rural counties under 700,000 population; 16 operating in 2026 across Elko, Nye, Lyon, Lander, Storey, and White Pine counties, excluded from Las Vegas and Reno.
List of California state prisons
The California state prisons are 31 adult institutions run by the CDCR, from San Quentin (1852) and Folsom (1880) to Corcoran, Pelican Bay, and two women's prisons, plus about 30 conservation fire camps; population fell from 173,000 in 2006 to about 90,000, driving closures including CRC in 2026.
List of Canada cities by crime severity index
List of Canada cities by crime severity index: rankings of Canadian census metropolitan areas and police services on Statistics Canada's Crime Severity Index (indice de gravité de la criminalité), a weighted police-reported crime measure (2006=100); Chilliwack highest, Barrie lowest among CMAs in 2024.
List of cases of the January 6 United States Capitol attack
List of cases of the January 6 United States Capitol attack: roughly 1,583 federal prosecutions tracked by DOJ, NPR, and GWU databases; ended by Trump's January 20, 2025 pardons and dismissals.
List of chief justices of India
Chronological list of the Chief Justices of India (CJI), heads of the Supreme Court since 26 January 1950, from H.J. Kania through the 53rd, Surya Kant (24 November 2025), with tenures, appointment rules, and tenure statistics.
List of con artists
List of con artists: documented confidence tricksters from William Thompson (origin of "confidence man," 1849) through Ponzi, Lustig, Parker, Sorokin, and recent UK and US fraud prosecutions, with schemes and outcomes.