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Sixth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly
The sixth emergency special session (ESS-6, Afghanistan) was a 1980 UN General Assembly session on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, convened via Uniting for Peace after USSR veto; it adopted resolution ES-6/2 calling for withdrawal.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is a New York-founded (1948) multinational law firm with 21 offices and about 1,700 lawyers, ranked Vault #3 and Am Law #5, known for M&A, litigation, and its 2025 White House agreement.
Skellefteå assault case
Skellefteå assault case: 7 July 2022 attack on a nine-year-old girl at Morö Backe, Skellefteå; a 15-year-old convicted of attempted murder and aggravated rape of a child (grov våldtäkt mot barn), case B 769-22, sentenced to forensic psychiatric care and SEK 730,000 damages.
Skip Brittenham
Harry "Skip" Brittenham (1941-2025) was an American entertainment lawyer, co-founder of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, pioneer of Hollywood's backend profit-participation deal, and adviser on the Pixar-Disney sale and DreamWorks Animation IPO.
Skiptrace
Skiptrace (skip tracing) is the investigative process of locating people whose contact information is unknown, used in debt collection, service of process, and law enforcement via public records and licensed databases under FCRA, GLBA, DPPA, and state law.
Skye Perryman
Skye Perryman is an American lawyer and President of Democracy Forward. She was named to TIME's 2025 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Slánský trial
The Slánský trial was a show trial held in Prague in November 1952, convicting Rudolf Slánský and thirteen other leading Communist officials of treason and espionage; eleven were hanged.
Slaughter-House Cases
Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873), also called the New Orleans slaughterhouse cases: 5-4 Supreme Court decision, the first reading of the Fourteenth Amendment, confining Privileges or Immunities to national citizenship and upholding Louisiana's Crescent City slaughterhouse monopoly.
Slave Investigation Act
The Slave Investigation Act (노비안검법), also called the Slave Review Act, was a 956 Goryeo law under King Gwangjong that restored wrongfully enslaved people to commoner status.
Slave states and free states
Slave states and free states were the pre-Civil War U.S. legal division over slavery. Congress preserved Senate balance by paired admissions (Missouri Compromise 1820, Compromise of 1850) until Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott, and the 13th Amendment ended it.
Slender Man stabbing
Slender Man stabbing: May 2014 attempted murder in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, stabbed classmate Payton Leutner 19 times to please the fictional creepypasta character; both were found not guilty by reason of mental disease.
Slobodan Milošević (Слободан Милошевић)
Slobodan Milošević (Слободан Милошевић), Serbian and Yugoslav president during the Yugoslav wars, first former head of state tried for war crimes by the ICTY; indicted for Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia, died 11 March 2006 mid-trial with no verdict.
Slobodan Praljak
Slobodan Praljak (2 January 1945 – 29 November 2017), Croatian general and former theatre director, commander of the Herceg-Bosna/HVO Main Staff, convicted to 20 years by the ICTY in the Prlić et al. case; he drank poison in court and died after his appeal was affirmed.
Smiley face murder theory
Smiley face murder theory: claim by retired NYPD detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte that dozens of drowned college men were gang murders marked by smiley graffiti; rejected by FBI and criminologists.
Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd
Smith v Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd [2024] NZSC 5 is a New Zealand Supreme Court climate tort case in which Ngāpuhi elder Mike Smith's public nuisance, negligence, and novel climate system damage claims against seven emitters were reinstated for trial.
Smoking ban
Smoking ban: laws prohibiting smoking in workplaces, restaurants, bars, and public spaces, grounded in WHO FCTC Article 8. Key facts: secondhand smoke kills over 1 million yearly; bans cut cardiovascular events about 12%; no substantial hospitality economic impact; Maldives has the first generational ban.
Smuggling
Smuggling: evading trade regulations by moving goods or people across borders illegally, avoiding duties or prohibitions. Also called contraband trade; spans mercantilist-era Atlantic trade, cigarette and drug smuggling, and modern migrant smuggling (90% of EU irregular arrivals use smugglers; €4.7–6 billion yearly).
Snoop (The Wire)
Snoop is a fictional assassin in Marlo Stanfield's drug organization on HBO's The Wire, played by Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, cast after Michael K. Williams met her in a Baltimore nightclub; known for the season-four nail gun scene.
Snowtown murders
Snowtown murders, or "bodies in the barrels" murders: South Australian serial killings 1992-1999, 12 deaths, bodies in acid barrels in a Snowtown bank; ringleader John Bunting convicted of 11 murders.
Soapy Smith
Soapy Smith, born Jefferson Randolph Smith (1860–1898), American con man famous for the Prize Package Soap Sell, crime boss of Denver and Skagway, killed July 8, 1898 in a Skagway wharf shootout.
Social media age verification laws in the United States
US state laws requiring social media platforms or app stores to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors; first enacted in Utah in 2023, mostly blocked in federal court under strict scrutiny, though Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (2025) established intermediate scrutiny for age-verification requirements.
Social parasitism (offense)
Social parasitism (tuneyadstvo, příživnictví) was a socialist-era criminal offense punishing able-bodied people who avoided work and lived by unfair means, used in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and briefly Belarus against beggars, prostitutes, and dissidents such as Joseph Brodsky.
Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952
ILO Convention No. 102, adopted 28 June 1952 and in force 27 April 1955, is the flagship international treaty setting minimum social security standards across nine branches, with ratification of at least three branches required.
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act (Public Law 74-271, H.R. 7260) is the 1935 U.S. federal statute signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14, 1935, creating old-age benefits, unemployment compensation grants, and aid programs, later expanded by the 1939, 1950, 1965 Medicare, and 1972 amendments.
Social Security Appeals Tribunal
The Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) was an Australian tribunal reviewing social security, family assistance, and child support decisions, merged into the AAT in 2015.
Social Security Tribunal of Canada
The Social Security Tribunal of Canada (SST, Tribunal de la sécurité sociale) is an independent administrative tribunal, operating since April 1, 2013 under Part 5 of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act, hearing EI, CPP, OAS, and Canada Disability Benefit appeals through a General Division and an Appeal Division.
Socialist law
Socialist law, also called Soviet-type law, is the Marxist-Leninist legal family of communist states such as the USSR, China, Vietnam, and Cuba, defined by socialist legality, party-led justice, and state ownership.
Soft-point bullet
Soft-point bullet: jacketed rifle or pistol projectile with exposed lead tip that mushrooms on impact; variants RSP, PSP, JSP; Hague 1899, hunting use.
Soham murders
The Soham murders: the 2002 killings of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman by school caretaker Ian Huntley, his 2003 Old Bailey conviction, the Bichard Inquiry, and his 2026 prison death.
Sok Daejeon
Sok Daejeon (속대전, Continued Great Code) is a Joseon dynasty legal code promulgated in 1746 under King Yeongjo, supplementing the fifteenth-century Gyeonggukdaejeon as basic law.