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Paul J. Kelly, Jr.
Paul J. Kelly, Jr. is an American jurist serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since 1992, appointed by George H.W. Bush.
Paul John Knowles
Paul John Knowles (April 17, 1946 – December 18, 1974), the Casanova Killer, was an American spree killer who murdered at least 18 people across several states from July to November 1974 before being shot by GBI agent Ronnie Angel during a reported escape attempt near Lithia Springs, Georgia.
Paul K. Holmes III
Paul Kinloch Holmes III (born 1951) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Arkansas appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Paul Kelly (criminal)
Paul Kelly, born Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli (1876-1936), was an Italian-American ex-boxer who led New York's Five Points Gang, allied with Tammany Hall's Big Tim Sullivan, and rivaled Monk Eastman in the 1903 Rivington Street gunfight.
Paul L. Friedman
Paul L. Friedman, born 1944 in Buffalo, New York, is a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Paul L. Maloney
Paul Lewis Maloney is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan since 2007, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Paul Michael Stephani
Paul Michael Stephani (September 8, 1944 – June 12, 1998), the "Weepy Voiced Killer," was a Minnesota serial killer who murdered three women and attacked two others in the Twin Cities, 1980–1982, tearfully reporting his crimes to 911 until his voice was recognized after his final attack.
Paul Reuter
Paul Reuter (1911–1990) was a French professor of public international law who helped design the European Coal and Steel Community's High Authority and won the 1981 Balzan Prize.
Paul Reynaud
Paul Reynaud (1878–1966), French lawyer and statesman, Third Republic finance minister 1938–1940 and President of the Council 21 March–16 June 1940 during the fall of France; opposed armistice, deported; later Nord deputy and 1962 de Gaulle opponent.
Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton
Paul Ruiz and Earl Van Denton were Oklahoma prison escapees whose 1977 crime spree killed several people across Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas; both were executed in Arkansas on January 8, 1997.
Paul Rusesabagina
Paul Rusesabagina, Hutu former manager of Kigali's Hotel des Mille Collines, credited with sheltering over 1,200 people in the 1994 genocide and inspiring Hotel Rwanda; later MRCD opposition founder, convicted of terrorism in 2021, released 2023.
Paul S. Diamond
Paul Steven Diamond is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2004, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Paul Snider
Paul Snider, also known as Paul Leslie Snider, was a Canadian promoter and pimp who married and murdered Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten in Los Angeles in 1980.
Paul V. Niemeyer
Paul Victor Niemeyer is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 1990, appointed by President George H.W. Bush.
Paul Vario
Paul Vario, Lucchese crime family capo and alleged consigliere based in Brooklyn, extorted JFK Airport labor, was convicted in 1973 tax and 1986 racketeering cases, was the model for Goodfellas' Paul Cicero, and died in prison in 1988.
Paul Warner Powell
Paul Warner Powell, Virginia murderer who killed Stacey Lynn Reed and raped her sister in Manassas in 1999; his taunting letter to prosecutor Paul Ebert after his first death sentence was overturned supplied evidence for a second capital conviction and his 2010 execution.
Paula Franzese
Paula A. Franzese, American legal scholar; Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law; property and housing law, government ethics reform; ten-time Professor of the Year.
Paula Jones
Paula Jones, Arkansas state employee whose 1994 lawsuit against Bill Clinton over a 1991 Excelsior Hotel incident produced Clinton v. Jones (1997), the unanimous Supreme Court ruling rejecting temporary presidential immunity, and ended in an $850,000 settlement.
Paula Vennells
Paula Vennells, British businesswoman and ordained priest, was Post Office Limited chief executive 2012-2019 during the Horizon IT scandal; she returned her CBE in 2024 and gave evidence at the Horizon IT Inquiry.
Paula Xinis
Paula Xinis, born 1968, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Maryland since 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Paulette caveat
The Paulette caveat was a 1973 application by sixteen Dene chiefs under Chief Francois Paulette to register a Land Titles Act caveat over about 400,000 square miles of Northwest Territories land covered by Treaties 8 and 11; Justice Morrow allowed it, but the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the case in 1976 on a technicality.
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline Murray, 1910-1985) was an American civil rights lawyer, legal scholar, poet, and first African American woman ordained an Episcopal priest. Coined 'Jane Crow,' wrote States' Laws on Race and Color, co-founded NOW, shaped Reed v. Reed.
Paulie Gualtieri
Paulie Gualtieri, "Paulie Walnuts" (Peter Paul Gualtieri), is a fictional caporegime in HBO's The Sopranos, played by Tony Sirico; nicknamed after a hijacked truck of nuts, with nine on-screen kills, surviving all six seasons.
Pauline Newman
Pauline Newman, born in 1927 in New York, is an American judge on the Federal Circuit appointed by Reagan in 1984, known for more than 300 dissents.
Pay in lieu of notice
Pay in lieu of notice (PILON) is a lump sum ending employment immediately instead of a worked notice period. UK law requires a contract clause or agreement; since April 2018 the notice pay is taxed as earnings and NICs apply.
Payment Services Directive
Payment Services Directive: EU directive on payment services; PSD2 (Directive 2015/2366, 2015) succeeded PSD1 (2007), mandates strong customer authentication, open banking third-party access, and is being replaced by PSD3 and the PSR.
Payton Gendron
Payton Gendron, white supremacist mass shooter who killed 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2022; serving 11 life terms after a state guilty plea and facing a federal death penalty trial.
Peace bond
A peace bond is a Canadian court order intended to prevent harm by imposing conditions on a person against whom there are reasonable grounds for fear. Section 810 of the Criminal Code.
Peace of Adrianople (1547)
The Peace of Adrianople (1547), also called the Truce of Adrianople, was a five-year Habsburg-Ottoman peace in which Ferdinand I paid tribute for his Hungarian lands.
Peace of Amasya
Peace of Amasya (29 May 1555), first Ottoman-Safavid peace treaty, signed between Suleiman the Magnificent and Shah Tahmasp I; recognized the border, curbed anti-Sunni cursing, and held for about twenty years.