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2008 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
October Term 2008 opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court (2008-2009): 29% of decisions were 5-4, with Ricci, NAMUDNO v. Holder, Melendez-Diaz, and Safford v. Redding among the term's notable rulings.
2008 United Nations Security Council election
2008 UN Security Council election, held 17 October 2008: General Assembly elected Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Uganda for 2009-2010 terms; Austria and Turkey beat Iceland, Japan beat Iran 158-32.
2009 South Park attacks
2009 South Park attacks: July 19, 2009 home invasion in South Park, Seattle, in which Isaiah Kalebu raped and stabbed Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper; Butz died, Kalebu received life without parole in 2011.
2009 Thanksgiving murders
The 2009 Thanksgiving murders were a mass shooting in Jupiter, Florida, on November 26, 2009, in which Paul Merhige killed four relatives at Thanksgiving dinner.
2010 in the environment
2010 in the environment: the year of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the International Year of Biodiversity, the Nagoya COP 10 and Cancún COP 16 summits, and a tie with 2005 as the warmest year on record.
2010 Northumbria Police manhunt
The 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt, or hunt for Raoul Moat, was a seven-day armed search in northeast England after Moat killed Chris Brown and blinded PC David Rathband; it ended with his suicide at Rothbury after a six-hour stand-off.
2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides
The 2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides: Bruce McArthur, a landscaper, killed eight gay or bisexual men tied to Toronto's Gay Village; arrested 2018, sentenced 2019, and the subject of the Missing and Missed review.
2011 International Court of Justice judges election
The 2011 International Court of Justice judges election was held on 10 November 2011, re-electing Owada, Xue, and Tomka and electing Gaja, with Sebutinde filling the final seat in December.
2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election
The 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was a statewide contest in which David Prosser Jr. narrowly defeated JoAnne Kloppenburg, a referendum on Act 10 and history's first race under public financing.
2012 Delhi gang rape and murder
The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder, the Nirbhaya case: the fatal December 16, 2012 assault of a 23-year-old student on a Delhi bus that sparked nationwide protests, the Justice Verma Committee, the 2013 Criminal Law Amendment, and the 2020 executions.
2012 Jefferson County, Texas, courthouse shooting
2012 Jefferson County courthouse shooting: March 14, 2012 attack in Beaumont, Texas, in which Bartholomew Granger, on trial for aggravated sexual assault, shot at witnesses outside the courthouse, killed bystander Minnie Ray Sebolt, and was later sentenced to death.
2012 Waller killings
The 2012 Waller killings: Trey Sesler, a YouTube anime reviewer known as Mr. Anime, shot his parents and brother in Waller, Texas on March 20, 2012, confessed, and received life without parole after pleading guilty to capital murder.
2014 Badaun gang rape allegations
Known as the Badaun sisters case, these allegations involve two teenage girls found hanging in Uttar Pradesh in 2014, despite the CBI concluding the deaths were suicide.
2014 Calgary stabbing
2014 Calgary stabbing (Brentwood stabbings): Matthew de Grood killed five University of Calgary students at an April 15, 2014 house party; found not criminally responsible in 2016.
2014 Columbia Mall shooting
The 2014 Columbia Mall shooting: on January 25, 2014, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, killed two Zumiez employees with a 12-gauge shotgun at The Mall in Columbia, Maryland, then killed himself; motive remained unknown.
2014 Franklin Regional High School stabbing
Mass stabbing on April 9, 2014, at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania: 16-year-old sophomore Alex Hribal wounded 21 students and a security officer with two 8-inch kitchen knives before being tackled; he was later sentenced to over 23 years.
2014 Midwest FurFest gas attack
Unsolved December 7, 2014 chlorine gas attack at Midwest FurFest, Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Rosemont, Illinois; 19 hospitalized; powdered chlorine in ninth-floor stairwell; no one charged.
2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape
June 2015 escape of murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, New York, via cut cell walls, a steam pipe, and a manhole; aided by Joyce Mitchell; ended in a 22-day manhunt.
2015 FIFA corruption case
2015 FIFA corruption case: US DOJ racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering prosecution of 29 present and former FIFA officials, beginning with the 27 May 2015 Brooklyn indictment and Zurich arrests.
2015 Texas campsite shooting
The 2015 Texas campsite shooting, also called the Anderson County campsite massacre, was the November 15, 2015 murder of six members of a blended family near Tennessee Colony by neighbor William Hudson, who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 2017.
2015 Wisconsin elections
2015 Wisconsin elections: April 7, 2015 spring election. Justice Ann Walsh Bradley defeated James Daley 58-42 for a third Supreme Court term; voters passed a chief justice selection amendment 53-47.
2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults
Mass sexual assaults, robberies, and thefts against women around Cologne's central station and cathedral on New Year's Eve 2015/16; 1,168 reported crimes including 492 sexual assaults, few convictions, a Landtag inquiry, and a 2016 criminal-law tightening.
2016 North Carolina judicial elections
2016 North Carolina judicial elections: November 8, 2016 contests in which Court of Appeals races regained party labels, making NC the first state in nearly a century to return to partisan judicial elections; incumbent Justice Robert Edmunds drew 45.55% statewide.
2016 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
October Term 2016 Supreme Court opinions: seventy written decisions from an eight-Justice Court after Scalia's death, with Gorsuch joining in April 2017; leading cases included Matal v. Tam, Trinity Lutheran, Sessions v. Morales-Santana, and Ziglar v. Abbasi.
2017 Kerala actor assault case
Kerala criminal case in which a Malayalam actress was abducted and gang raped in Kochi on February 17, 2017; six men including Pulsar Suni were convicted and Dileep, accused no. 8, acquitted in December 2025.
2017 Pasquotank County prison murders
October 12, 2017 escape attempt at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City, NC, in which inmates Mikel Brady, Wisezah Buckman, Seth Frazier, and Jonathan Monk killed four prison staff; all four perpetrators were convicted, three with death sentences.
2017 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
October Term 2017 Supreme Court opinions (Oct 2, 2017–Sep 30, 2018), published in U.S. Reports volumes 583–585. Gorsuch's first full term, Kennedy's last; 28 of 71 decisions unanimous; Janus, Trump v. Hawaii.
2017 Unnao rape case
The 2017 Unnao rape case: rape of a 17-year-old Dalit girl by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, his 2019 life sentence, the father's custodial death, the 2019 car crash, and the 2025-2026 bail litigation.
2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis
The 2017–18 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis, or dual citizenship saga, in which section 44 of the Constitution disqualified parliamentarians holding foreign citizenship, from Ludlam's July 2017 resignation to the May 2018 Gallagher ruling and five by-elections.
2018 Bayshore Boulevard crash
The 2018 Bayshore Boulevard crash was a fatal street-racing collision in Tampa, Florida, on May 23, 2018, that killed a mother and her 21-month-old daughter.