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List of immigration raids and arrests in the second Trump presidency

Immigration raids and arrests in the second Trump presidency: ICE-led interior enforcement since January 20, 2025, including the Ellabell Hyundai raid, record monthly arrests of 49,571 in July 2026, 287(g) expansion, and Minneapolis shootings.

List of incidents at Disneyland Resort

Incidents at Disneyland Resort: deaths, serious injuries, and accidents at the Anaheim, California theme park resort, including the 2003 Big Thunder Mountain derailment, Jungle Cruise litigation, injury-report data, and its self-regulation history.

List of International Court of Justice cases

The list of International Court of Justice cases, also known as ICJ cases, records contentious cases between States and advisory proceedings, totaling 202 entries since 1947.

List of Italian Mafia crime families

Italian Mafia crime families are the family and clan units of Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta, the Camorra, and Apulian groups such as the Sacra Corona Unita, covering their structures, notable clans, and state response.

List of Italian-American mobsters

Italian-American mobsters are members and bosses of La Cosa Nostra families, also called the Mafia or the outfit, active in the United States since the 1920s. Key figures include Luciano, Maranzano, Costello, Genovese, and Gigante.

List of Italian-American mobsters by organization

Italian-American mobsters organized by La Cosa Nostra crime family: the five New York families (Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese), plus DeCavalcante, Philadelphia, New England, and the Chicago Outfit, with bosses, ranks, and prosecutions.

List of Jim Crow law examples by state

Jim Crow laws were U.S. state and local statutes enforcing racial segregation and disfranchisement, chiefly in the South from the 1890s to the 1960s; this entry lists documented examples by state, from Alabama transportation rules to Wyoming marriage bans.

List of justices of the Supreme Court of Canada

Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada: the nine judges, one Chief Justice and eight puisne justices, on Canada's final court of appeal since 1875. Covers current bench, appointment rules, Quebec requirement, and chief justice succession.

List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: the 17 Chief Justices and 104 Associate Justices serving since 1789, now nine members, with oath dates, appointing presidents, and service records.

List of kidnappings

The list of kidnappings, also covering famous abductions, catalogs notable cases from modern history, including Charles Lindbergh Jr., Patty Hearst, Aldo Moro, Jaycee Dugard, and Elizabeth Smart.

List of kidnappings before 1900

Kidnappings before 1900: ransom captivity in medieval Europe, raptus abductions of women, kidnapping of free Black Americans 1780-1865, and the 1874 Charley Ross case, the first known US kidnapping for ransom.

List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom

Deaths caused by UK law enforcement: IOPC counts 155 deaths during or following police contact in England and Wales in 2024/25; INQUEST records 1,983 deaths since 1990, including 89 fatal police shootings.

List of landmark court decisions in the United States

Landmark US Supreme Court decisions: informal scholarly designation for rulings like Marbury, Brown, Miranda, Roe/Dobbs, and Obergefell; grouped by doctrine, era, and chronology; includes overrulings, docket statistics, and 2023–2026 additions.

List of last meals

List of last meals: documented final meal requests of condemned prisoners, a death row ritual studied by folklorists and criminologists; Texas ended special requests in 2011 after Lawrence Brewer's refused order.

List of Latin legal terms

Latin legal terms are Latin phrases used as terms of art in modern law (Law Latin), such as habeas corpus, actus reus, stare decisis, and prima facie, with meanings set by modern jurisprudence rather than classical Latin usage.

List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes

Episode guide for Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the NBC/USA police procedural (2001–2011): 195 episodes in 10 seasons, led by Goren and Eames, later Goldblum's Nichols.

List of legal abbreviations

List of legal abbreviations: reference lists expanding short forms in legal citations, covering Bluebook tables, case-name abbreviations, US reporters (S.Ct., F.3d), UK law reports (AC, QB), neutral citations, and lookup tools like the Cardiff Index.

List of legal entity types by country

The list of legal entity types by country, also known as a list of company types, catalogs business forms like corporations, partnerships, and LLCs across jurisdictions.

List of long-term false imprisonment cases

Long-term false imprisonment cases: Dugard (18 years, Antioch), Fritzl (24 years, Amstetten), Cleveland kidnappings (~10 years), Colleen Stan (7 years), Terry Anderson (2,454 days), with legal distinction from kidnapping.

List of major crimes in Japan

Major crimes in Japan: notable homicides, mass killings, and terrorist attacks from the 1915 Sankebetsu bear incident and 1948 Teigin case to the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack, plus wrongful-conviction retrials.

List of mass shootings in the United States (2010–2019)

Mass shootings in the United States, 2010–2019, also called the decade's gun massacres: no official definition exists, so counts range from about 5 to hundreds yearly; average 51 deaths per year; deadliest was Las Vegas 2017.

List of mass shootings in the United States in 2025

Mass shootings in the United States in 2025: FBI designated 34 active shooter incidents; AP/USA Today/Northeastern counted 17 mass killings (81+ deaths, lowest since 2006); EveryShot logged 485 mass shooting incidents with 493 deaths.

List of members of the Universal Postal Union

Official list of the Universal Postal Union's members: 192 member countries admitted under Articles 2 and 11 of the UPU Constitution, compiled by the International Bureau, with dependent territories attached to member states.

List of Mexican drug cartel figures

List of Mexican drug cartel figures: named leaders of CJNG, Sinaloa Cartel, and smaller groups, including El Mencho (killed 2026), El Mayo (life sentence), and their successors, with statuses and US rewards.

List of minimum annual leave by country

Statutory minimum paid annual leave by country: ILO Convention No. 132 floor of three working weeks, EU minimum of four weeks, and national minimums ranging from 7 to 30 days; the United States has no federal mandate.

List of miscarriage of justice cases

Miscarriage of justice cases: documented wrongful convictions from Borchard's 65 US cases to 3,866 National Registry exonerations, plus EUREX, UK, Canadian, Vietnamese, and Japanese cases and their causes.

List of most recent executions by jurisdiction

Most recent executions by jurisdiction: recorded 2025 executions in 17 countries totaled 2,707, led by Iran (2,159+), Saudi Arabia (356+), and the USA (47, Florida 19); China's figures are secret.

List of murdered American children

Murdered American children: notable US child homicide victims and victim groups (Emmett Till, Adam Walsh, Atlanta Child Murders, Oklahoma City, Parkland) with national child-homicide statistics, rates, and measurement systems.

List of murderers by number of victims

Victim counts of murderers and serial killers: FBI thresholds, confirmed versus claimed totals for offenders such as Little, Ridgway, Bundy, and Lucas, and the Lambda rate used to measure killing intensity.

List of national constitutions

List of national constitutions: catalogs of the world's constitutional texts, chiefly the Comparative Constitutions Project and its Constitute platform, covering in-force and historical constitutions since 1789, topic tagging, and amendment patterns.