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Sarah T. Hughes
Sarah T. Hughes (1896–1985), Texas judge: first woman state district judge in Texas, first woman federal judge in Texas, and the only woman to swear in a US president, administering the oath to Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination.
Sarah Weddington
Sarah Weddington (1945-2021), Texas attorney who argued and won Roe v. Wade at 26, later a Texas House member, first woman USDA general counsel, Carter women's-affairs adviser, and author of A Question of Choice.
Sarala V. Nagala
Sarala V. Nagala, also known as Sarala Vidya Nagala, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Connecticut since 2021.
Sarbanes–Oxley Act
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), P.L. 107-204 of July 30, 2002: US federal law enacted after Enron and WorldCom scandals creating the PCAOB and requiring public-company internal control assessments under Section 404, with auditor attestation for accelerated filers.
Saskatoon freezing deaths
Saskatoon freezing deaths, or starlight tours: deaths of Indigenous men including Neil Stonechild, Rodney Naistus, and Lawrence Wegner abandoned outside Saskatoon in winter by police; Wright Inquiry found police role; no officer convicted for the deaths.
Saturday Night Massacre
Saturday Night Massacre: October 20, 1973 Watergate episode in which President Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox; Attorneys General Richardson and Ruckelshaus resigned rather than comply, and acting Attorney General Robert Bork executed the dismissal.
Satyam scandal
Satyam scandal: 2009 accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth-largest IT firm, dubbed India's Enron. Founder Ramalinga Raju confessed to $1.47 billion falsified accounts; government reconstituted the board and sold the company to Tech Mahindra.
Saudi contract law
Saudi contract law governs contracts in Saudi Arabia. Long uncodified Shari'a, it was codified by the Civil Transactions Law (نظام المعاملات المدنية), enacted in June 2023 and effective December 2023.
Saundra B. Armstrong
Saundra B. Armstrong, also known as Saundra Brown Armstrong, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of California.
Sava Tekelija
Sava Tekelija (Сава Текелија), a Serbian nobleman and jurist from southern Hungary, became the first Serb doctor of law and founded the Tekelijanum in Pest in 1838.
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi (سعیده حسین وارثی; born 1971), is a British lawyer and politician who was the first Muslim woman to serve in the UK cabinet.
Sayyed Bozorg Mahmoody
Sayyed Bozorg "Moody" Mahmoody (1939-2009) was an Iranian-born, US-educated anesthesiologist, husband of Betty Mahmoody, whose 1987 memoir Not Without My Daughter and 1991 film accused him of trapping the family in Iran in 1984; he disputed the account and died in Tehran in 2009.
Scam centers in Myanmar
Scam centers in Myanmar are fortified compounds, mainly in Myawaddy and northern Shan State, where trafficked workers are forced to run online fraud; the industry grew after the 2021 coup and survives crackdowns, sanctions, and repatriation drives.
Scènes à faire
Scènes à faire, French for "scenes to be done," is a US copyright doctrine under which stock or standard elements of a genre or setting get no copyright protection.
Schapelle Corby
Schapelle Corby, Australian Gold Coast woman convicted in Bali in 2005 of importing 4.1 kg of marijuana found in her bodyboard bag; sentenced to 20 years, paroled 2014, deported 2017; case sparked Australian media frenzy and proceeds-of-crime actions.
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, also known as the SC/ST Act, is an Indian law criminalizing specific atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
Schenck v. United States
Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), a unanimous Supreme Court decision by Justice Holmes upholding Espionage Act convictions of Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer for anti-draft leaflets, which established the clear and present danger test later replaced by Brandenburg's imminent lawless action standard.
Scholarship and jurisprudence on state succession
Scholarship and jurisprudence on state succession is the body of doctrine and case law on how one state's legal position passes to another, centered on consent versus continuity of treaties.
School-to-prison pipeline
School-to-prison pipeline: US policy framework, also called the STPP, linking zero-tolerance discipline, school policing, and exclusionary suspensions to dropout and juvenile or criminal justice contact, disproportionately affecting Black, Latino, and disabled students.
SCO–Linux disputes
SCO–Linux disputes: lawsuits begun in 2003 by The SCO Group (formerly Caldera) claiming Linux contained UNIX code; Novell won the copyright ownership verdict in 2010, and successor Xinuos' revived claims were rejected by the Second Circuit in 2026.
Scold's bridle
Scold's bridle, also called branks or witch's bridle: an iron punishment mask with a mouth gag, sometimes spiked or belled, used in Britain and northern Europe from the 1500s, mostly on women judged scolds, until the mid-1800s.
Scope, characterization and validity in contract conflict of laws
Scope, characterization and validity in contract conflict of laws is a legal study of international contracts. It defines the scope of the chosen law under the Rome I Regulation and the 2015 Hague Principles.
Scopes trial
The Scopes trial, or Scopes Monkey Trial, was the July 1925 Dayton, Tennessee case in which teacher John T. Scopes was convicted under the Butler Act for teaching evolution; the conviction was reversed in 1927.
Scots contract law
Scots contract law governs binding agreements in Scotland's mixed legal system. Its distinctive features are the absent consideration requirement and the binding unilateral promise (pollicitatio), confirmed in Regus and RBS v Carlyle, plus recent statutory reform.
Scots law
Scots law is Scotland's non-codified mixed legal system, blending Roman-civilian tradition with English common law after the 1707 Union, shaped by institutional writers such as Stair and Erskine.
Scott Boras
Scott Boras (born 1952) is baseball's leading player agent and founder of the Boras Corporation, Newport Beach; negotiated Rodriguez's $252M and Soto's $765M contracts.
Scott Dozier
Scott Raymond Dozier, Nevada death-row inmate #1011685, convicted of the 2002 murder of Jeremiah Miller, waived appeals to demand execution, was blocked by drug-protocol litigation, and died by suicide at Ely State Prison on January 5, 2019.
Scott H. Rash
Scott Hugh Rash (born 1963) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2020, appointed by President Trump.
Scott L. Palk
Scott L. Palk is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma since 2017, appointed by President Trump.
Scott Lee Kimball
Scott Lee Kimball, also known as Scott Kimball, is an American serial killer from Colorado who murdered four people between 2003 and 2004 while an FBI informant.