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Benjamin M. Flowers
Benjamin M. Flowers, Ohio's 10th Solicitor General (2019-2023), argued the state's major appeals including its 2019 abortion ban; partner at Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers; confirmed to the Sixth Circuit in July 2026.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870–1938), American jurist, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1926–1932 and U.S. Supreme Court justice 1932–1938; author of MacPherson, Palsgraf, and The Nature of the Judicial Process.
Benjamin Ritchie
Benjamin Donnie Ritchie (1980-2025), Indiana man executed May 20, 2025 for the 2000 fatal shooting of Beech Grove police officer William Toney during a foot chase; convicted 2002, appeals over FASD and lead exposure failed, pentobarbital execution drew botched-execution concerns.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), American Supreme Court associate justice 1851–1857 appointed by Fillmore; author of the main Dred Scott dissent, the only justice to resign in protest, and Andrew Johnson's impeachment defense counsel.
Bennie Demps
Bennie Eddie Demps (1950-2000), Florida death row inmate executed by lethal injection June 7, 2000; sentenced to death in 1971 (Lake County murders, commuted after Furman) and again in 1978 for the 1976 prison murder of inmate Alfred Sturgis.
Berber Dahir
The Berber Dahir (Arabic: الظهير البربري) was a 1930 decree by the Moroccan sultan, designed by French Protectorate officials, establishing customary courts in Berber tribal areas.
Bering Sea agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia
The Bering Sea agreements are two US–Soviet/Russian instruments defining the maritime boundary: the 1867 Alaska purchase convention and the 1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement, applied but never ratified by Russia.
Berlin Conference
Berlin Conference (Berliner Kongo-Konferenz), 15 Nov 1884–26 Feb 1885: 14 states under Bismarck signed the General Act of Berlin, setting Congo basin free trade, navigation, and effective occupation rules; it drew no African borders and excluded African representation.
Bermuda Agreement
The Bermuda Agreement (Bermuda I), signed by the UK and US at Bermuda on 11 February 1946, was the bilateral air services agreement establishing the Bermuda Principles: capacity by ex post facto review and IATA-administered, doubly approved tariffs. It became the model for most later bilateral air transport agreements and was replaced by Bermuda II in 1977.
Bermuda II Agreement
Bermuda II Agreement: 1977 US-UK bilateral air transport agreement, also called the 1977 Air Services Agreement, replacing Bermuda I; restricted Heathrow access to four designated carriers and fares, until superseded by the 2007 EU-US Open Skies agreement.
Bernard A. Friedman
Bernard A. Friedman (born 1943) is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Michigan appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Bernard Loder
Bernard Loder was a Dutch jurist who helped draft the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and served as its first president, from 1922 to 1924.
Bernard M. Jones
Bernard M. Jones, born in 1979, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016), Corleonesi boss and head of Cosa Nostra from 1993 after Totò Riina's arrest; fugitive 43 years, captured 2006 near Corleone, ran the Mafia via pizzini notes, died under 41-bis in Milan.
Berne Convention
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886), the foundational international copyright treaty administered by WIPO: national treatment, automatic protection, independence of protection, 50-year minimum term, three-step test, 182 members.
Bernie Tiede
Bernie Tiede, born Bernhardt Tiede II, is a former East Texas mortician convicted of murdering wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas, in 1996 and hiding her body in a freezer.
Beryl A. Howell
Beryl A. Howell, born Beryl Alaine Howell, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.
Bessarabian question
Bessarabian question: the Romania–Soviet dispute over Bessarabia, from the 1918 Sfatul Țării union vote and the 1920 Treaty of Paris (never fully ratified; Japan withheld) to the 1940 Soviet ultimatum and annexation.
Best interests
Best interests of the child is a legal standard requiring decisions about a child to rest on evaluating and balancing that child's particular situation, applied in custody and child-protection decisions.
Beth F. Bloom
Beth F. Bloom, born 1962 in the Bronx, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2014.
Beth L. Freeman
Beth Labson Freeman, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in San Jose since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Beth Robinson
Beth Robinson (born 1965) is a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit judge, former Vermont Supreme Court justice, and co-counsel in Baker v. State, the first openly lesbian federal appeals judge.
Beth Wilkinson
Beth Wilkinson (born 1962) is an American trial lawyer, Princeton and UVA Law graduate, former Army and Oklahoma City bombing prosecutor, and co-founder of the trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff, known for the NFL Sunday Ticket and Microsoft-Activision defenses.
Better Business Bureau
Better Business Bureau (BBB): North American nonprofit, not a government agency, publishing A+ to F business ratings, customer reviews, and complaint mediation; founded 1912, funded by accredited-business dues, with no enforcement power.
Betts v. Brady
Betts v. Brady, 316 U.S. 455 (1942), also called the Betts rule, held states need not appoint counsel for every indigent defendant, only under special circumstances; unanimously overruled by Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963.
Betty Broderick
Betty Broderick (Elisabeth Anne Broderick, born Elisabeth Anne Bisceglia, 1947) was an American convicted of the 1989 San Diego murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his wife Linda Kolkena; convicted of second-degree murder in 1991, sentenced to 32 years to life, died in prison 2026.
Betty Lou Beets
Betty Lou Beets, Texas woman executed February 24, 2000 for the 1983 capital murder of her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets for remuneration; second woman and oldest person executed in Texas since 1982; case centered on battered woman syndrome claims.
Bevan Spencer von Einem
Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 1946, died 5 December 2025) was an Adelaide accountant convicted in 1984 of murdering 15-year-old Richard Kelvin, the only conviction in the unsolved 'Family' murders; he died in prison of metastatic cancer.
Beverley Allitt
Beverley Allitt is a former nurse convicted in 1993 of murdering four children and harming nine others on Ward 4 of Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in 1991.
Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin, born 1943, was Chief Justice of Canada 2000-2017, the first woman and longest-serving holder of that office, known for Charter section 7 rulings, the 2014 Nadon dispute, and later Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal service.