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Teen court
Teen court, also called youth, peer, or student court, is a juvenile diversion program where youth volunteers sentence first-time minor offenders, using adult judge, youth judge, tribunal, or peer jury models; meta-analyses find no significant recidivism reduction.
Teesta Setalvad (તીસ્તા સેટલવાડ)
Teesta Setalvad (તીસ્તા સેટલવાડ), born 1962, is an Indian journalist and civil rights activist, secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace, advocate for 2002 Gujarat riot victims, arrested 2022, on bail since July 2023.
Tehsildar (تحصیلدار)
Tehsildar (تحصیلدار), also Tahsildar or Tahasildar; Mukhtiarkar in Sindh. Chief revenue officer of a tehsil subdivision in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, collecting land revenue, maintaining records, and issuing certificates; a Mughal-era office formalized under British rule.
Television content rating system
Television content rating system: age-based labels and content descriptors such as the US TV Parental Guidelines (TV-Y to TV-MA), created after the 1996 Telecommunications Act, paired with V-chip blocking and used by broadcast, cable, and streaming services.
Temple of Preah Vihear case
The Temple of Preah Vihear case is a Cambodia v. Thailand dispute decided by the International Court of Justice, which awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962.
Tena Campbell
Tena Campbell, born 1944, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Utah since 1995, appointed by Bill Clinton; she was chief judge from 2006 to 2011.
Tennessee Children's Home Society
Tennessee Children's Home Society, Memphis adoption agency run by Georgia Tann 1924-1950; placed over 5,000 children, many kidnapped, in black-market adoptions; closed after 1950 state investigation.
Tennessee Plan
The Tennessee Plan is the state's modified Missouri Plan (adopted 1971) for selecting appellate judges: commission nomination of 3-5 candidates, gubernatorial appointment, legislative confirmation, and eight-year terms ending in unopposed retention elections.
Tennessee v. Garner
Tennessee v. Garner is a 1985 US Supreme Court decision holding that the Fourth Amendment prohibits deadly force against an unarmed, nondangerous fleeing suspect, striking down a Tennessee statute.
Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Tenth Amendment, the last of the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791, reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the States or the people.
Terence C. Kern
Terence C. Kern, born 1944, is a retired American judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Teresa Cheng (郑若骅)
Teresa Cheng (郑若骅), born 1958, Hong Kong Senior Counsel and arbitrator; Secretary for Justice 2018-2022; first Asian woman president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2008); first Secretary-General of the International Organization for Mediation (2025).
Teresa Lewis
Teresa Wilson Bean Lewis, Virginia death-row inmate executed September 23, 2010, for hiring Matthew Shallenberger and Rodney Fuller to murder her husband Julian and stepson Charles in 2002; first Virginia woman executed since 1912.
Teresita Basa
Teresita Basa (1929–1977), Filipino-American respiratory therapist murdered in Chicago; the "Voice from the Grave" case in which coworker Remy Chua's alleged possession named killer Allan Showery, leading to his 1979 guilty plea.
Term limits in the United States
Term limits in the United States cap tenure in elected office: the 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two elections, Congress has no limit after U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (1995), and 16 states limit legislators and 37 limit governors.
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was a UK private members' bill seeking to legalize assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales.
Termination of employment
Termination of employment: the legal ending of an employer-employee relationship. Covers at-will employment (all US states except Montana), ILO Convention No. 158's valid-reason standard, UK dismissal types, Ontario ESA notice rules, and OECD comparative dismissal-regulation strictness.
Termination of League of Nations mandates and United Nations succession
League of Nations mandates ended through individual acts of termination rather than the League's 1946 dissolution, a rule the International Court of Justice established in 1950.
Termination, withdrawal and denunciation of treaties
Termination, withdrawal, and denunciation are the ways a state ends its participation in a treaty, governed largely by the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties as customary law.
Terms of service
Terms of service (ToS, terms of use) are standard-form online contracts presented via clickwrap, browsewrap, or sign-in wrap. Key facts: Specht v. Netscape limited browsewrap enforcement; users rarely read 6,000-word agreements; EU study found unfair clauses in all 100 ToS sampled.
Terms, tenure and removal of state high-court justices
Terms, tenure and removal of state high-court justices details the accountability rules for state supreme court justices. Most justices serve limited terms, face mandatory retirement, or both.
Terrence G. Berg
Terrence G. Berg, born 1959 in Detroit, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan since 2012, formerly interim United States attorney there.
Terrence L. O'Brien
Terrence L. O'Brien, born 1943 in Lincoln, Nebraska, is a senior United States circuit judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.
Terrence W. Boyle
Terrence W. Boyle, born 1945, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina since 1984, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
Terri Schiavo case
Terri Schiavo case: 1998-2005 US legal and political battle over removing the feeding tube of Theresa Marie Schiavo, a Florida woman in a persistent vegetative state; courts upheld removal; she died March 31, 2005.
Territorial application of treaties
Territorial application of treaties is the body of rules deciding whether, and in which territories, a treaty binds a state, with special clauses for colonies and dependent territories.
Territorial evolution of North America since 1763
Continental map changes since 1763: British conquest of New France, the 1783 and 1803 U.S. treaties, Mexican Cession, and Canada's growth from the 1867 union to Nunavut in 1999.
Territorial exchange and cession treaties of early modern Europe
Territorial exchange and cession treaties were standalone early-modern agreements by which rulers transferred sovereignty over defined territories, like the 1601 Treaty of Lyon between France and Savoy.
Territorial principle
Territorial principle: the public international law rule grounding state jurisdiction in territory, shaped by the 1927 Lotus case, split into subjective and objective forms, extended by the effects doctrine, and challenged by cyberspace.
Territorial provisions of the Peace of Westphalia
The territorial provisions of the Peace of Westphalia were the 1648 land and dynastic terms by which France, Sweden, Bavaria, and other estates redistributed conquests.