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Palestinian war crimes
Palestinian war crimes: alleged laws-of-war violations by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, notably the 7 October 2023 attack, hostage-taking, and killings, as documented by UN inquiries and charged by the ICC, alongside parallel findings against Israeli forces.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928), New York Court of Appeals negligence case; Cardozo's 4-3 duty holding (foreseeable plaintiff) versus Andrews's dissent; fireworks, falling scales, and duty doctrine.
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi, born Pamela Jo Bondi in 1965, is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Florida's first woman Attorney General from 2011 to 2019.
Pam Hupp
Pam Hupp (Pamela Hupp), Missouri woman convicted of the 2016 murder of Louis Gumpenberger and charged in the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, which led to Russ Faria's wrongful conviction and exoneration.
Pam the Bird
Pam the Bird is a cartoon bird graffiti tag that appeared across Melbourne from 2023. Police allege creator Jack Gibson-Burrell faced 209 charges and about $700,000 damage, plus a 2026 Bolte Bridge tower standoff.
Pamela A. Barker
Pamela A. Barker, also known as Pamela Ann Barker, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2019.
Pamela A. Harris
Pamela A. Harris, born 1962, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Fourth Circuit since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Pamela Ki M. Chen
Pamela Ki Mai Chen, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2013, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Pamela Pepper
Pamela Pepper is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Pamela Smart
Pamela Smart, American former school media coordinator serving life without parole for conspiring in the May 1, 1990 murder of her husband Gregory Smart in Derry, New Hampshire, by her teenage lover William Flynn; her 1991 trial was among the first fully televised in the US.
Pamela Talkin
Pamela Talkin, tenth Marshal of the United States Supreme Court (2001-2020) and its first female Marshal; former EEOC chief of staff and FLRA nominee; retired July 31, 2020.
Panama Papers case
The Panama Papers case, or Panamagate case, was Panama's money laundering prosecution of the Mossack Fonseca law firm and its founders, who were acquitted by all 28 defendants in 2024.
Pandora Gate
Pandora Gate is the 2023 Polish influencer scandal revealed by Sylwester Wardęga over alleged abuse of minors, leading to the 2026 UK extradition of YouTuber Stuu; also a fictional wormhole device in Eclipse Phase.
Panfilo Lacson
Panfilo "Ping" Morena Lacson (born 1948, Imus, Cavite) is a Filipino senator, former PNP Chief (1999–2001), 2022 presidential candidate, and Senate President Pro Tempore known for anti-pork-barrel budget watchdog work.
Panopticon
The Panopticon is Jeremy Bentham's circular institutional building design (1791), with a central inspection tower allowing unseen, seemingly constant observation of cells; it was never built to his strict design but shaped later prisons and modern surveillance theory.
Paolo Borsellino
Paolo Borsellino (1940–1992), Italian anti-Mafia magistrate of Palermo, co-leader with Giovanni Falcone of the antimafia pool and the 1986 Maxi Trial; killed 19 July 1992 in the Via D'Amelio car-bombing with five escorts.
Papon
Papon is a French surname, most prominently borne by Maurice Papon (1910–2007), a civil servant and politician convicted in 1998 for deporting Jews from Bordeaux during the German occupation.
Papua New Guinea–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty
Papua New Guinea–Solomon Islands Maritime Boundary Treaty, formally the 1989 Treaty Concerning Sovereignty, Maritime and Seabed Boundaries, signed 25 January 1989; delimits the two countries' EEZ boundary under UNCLOS, with related Special Areas and border surveillance agreements.
Paralegal
A paralegal, also known as a legal assistant, performs substantive legal work under a lawyer's supervision but may not give legal advice or represent clients in court.
Parallel divorce proceedings and forum shopping
Parallel divorce proceedings are suits on the same divorce in courts of two states or countries, and forum shopping is choosing the forum whose rules favor a spouse.
Pardon
A pardon is executive clemency forgiving a criminal offense; in the United States it rests on Article II's pardon clause, covers federal offenses except impeachment, removes punishments and civil disabilities but not the conviction, and differs from amnesty, commutation, and reprieve.
Pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants
Trump's January 6 pardon: Proclamation 10887 (January 20, 2025), full unconditional pardons for roughly 1,500 January 6 Capitol attack defendants, commutations for 14 including Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, and dismissal of pending cases.
Pardon of Richard Nixon
Ford's September 8, 1974 Proclamation 4311 granted Richard Nixon a full, free, absolute pardon for any federal offenses from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974, a preemptive, never court-tested pardon that drew a sharp public backlash.
Parent
Parent: a person legally recognized as holding parental rights and responsibilities toward a child, through gestation, genetics, marriage, intention, function, or adoption; also called legal parentage, distinct from parental responsibility.
Parental alienation syndrome
Parental alienation syndrome (PAS), a proposed child disorder defined by Richard Gardner in 1985 in custody disputes; excluded from DSM-5 and ICD-11 and rejected by major professional organizations as pseudoscience.
Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), 1980 federal law codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, sets national jurisdiction standards for interstate child custody and requires full faith and credit to compliant sister-state custody orders.
Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is a legally binding UNFCCC climate treaty adopted by 195 Parties at COP21 on 12 December 2015, in force 4 November 2016, with 194 Parties as of January 2026. It sets goals of well below 2°C, pursuing 1.5°C, via five-year NDCs, transparency, and global stocktakes.
Paris Arbitral Award
The Paris Arbitral Award is the 1899 decision that fixed the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela, granting land east of the Essequibo River to Britain.
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Convention de Paris), 1883 WIPO treaty on patents, trademarks, designs, and unfair competition; national treatment, 12/6-month priority right, 181 members, revised six times through Stockholm 1967.
Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
The Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law, adopted 16 April 1856 after the Crimean War by seven powers including Britain, France, Russia, and Turkey, abolished privateering, protected neutral goods except contraband, and required effective blockades; the United States never acceded.