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Warranty
Warranty: a legally enforceable promise about a product's condition or performance, express or implied, governed in the US by the Magnuson-Moss Act and UCC, distinct from a guarantee or service contract.
Warren Christopher
Warren Minor Christopher (1925–2011), American lawyer-diplomat, 63rd U.S. Secretary of State (1993–1997) under Clinton; earlier Deputy Secretary of State under Carter and Iran hostage negotiator; brokered Dayton Accords.
Warren Court
The Warren Court (1953-1969), led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, transformed US constitutional law through Brown v. Board of Education, Baker v. Carr, Gideon, Miranda, and Engel v. Vitale.
Warren E. Burger
Warren E. Burger (1907–1995), 15th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1969–1986), Minnesota-born Nixon appointee between Earl Warren and Rehnquist; wrote United States v. Nixon and reformed federal court administration.
Warren v. District of Columbia
Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. 1981), a D.C. Court of Appeals tort case, held police owe duties to the public at large, not individuals, absent a special relationship, founding the District's public duty doctrine.
Warsaw Convention
The Warsaw Convention (1929) is the founding international treaty on air carrier liability for international carriage of passengers, baggage, and cargo, amended by the Hague Protocol, Guadalajara Convention, and Montreal Protocols, and largely replaced by the Montreal Convention of 1999.
Wartime sexual violence
Wartime sexual violence, or conflict-related sexual violence, is rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, and similar acts committed by force or coercion during armed conflict; prohibited under IHL, prosecutable as war crimes, and documented in Ukraine, DRC, and other conflicts.
Washington and Colorado serial rape cases
The Washington and Colorado serial rape cases, also known as the Marc O'Leary case, were rapes committed by Marc O'Leary in 2008 and from 2009 to 2011.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
The WEEE Directive (Directive 2002/96/EC, recast as 2012/19/EU) is EU legislation requiring separate collection, treatment and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment, with producer financing, a 65% collection target, and a 2024 amendment fixing retroactive cost rules.
Water cure (torture)
Water cure (torture): an interrogation torture forcing victims to drink large water quantities or suffocate under poured water; used by U.S. troops in the Philippine-American War 1899-1902 and ruled torture in U.S. courts; distinct from waterboarding and unrelated to hydropathy.
Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp., 348 U.S. 66 (1954), Supreme Court case upholding Louisiana's direct action statute against Equal Protection, Contract Clause, Due Process, and Full Faith and Credit challenges to an out-of-state policy with a no-action clause.
Watts family murders
Watts family murders: 2018 Frederick, Colorado killings by Chris Watts of pregnant wife Shanann and daughters Bella and Celeste; guilty pleas, life without parole, Netflix's American Murder.
Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr.
Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr., born 1956 in Nashville, is a United States district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, appointed by Barack Obama in 2016.
Wayne E. Alley
Wayne Edward Alley (born 1932) is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Oklahoma from 1985 until 1999, appointed by Ronald Reagan.
Wayne Jenkins
Wayne Earl Jenkins Jr. is a former Baltimore Police sergeant who led the Gun Trace Task Force and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2018 for racketeering.
Wayne Nance
Wayne Nathan Nance, the "Missoula Mauler," was a suspected serial killer in Missoula, Montana, active 1974–1986, linked to at least six killings including Donna Pounds and the Shooks, never tried, and killed in 1986 by intended victim Doug Wells.
Wayne Williams
Wayne Bertram Williams (born 1958, Atlanta) is the convicted murderer serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1982 killings of Jimmy Ray Payne and Nathaniel Cater, linked by law enforcement to most of the 29 Atlanta Child Murders of 1979 to 1981 through hair and fiber evidence.
Wearside Jack
Wearside Jack was John Samuel Humble, the Sunderland hoaxer who sent letters and an 'I'm Jack' tape posing as the Yorkshire Ripper in 1978-1979, diverting the Sutcliffe inquiry, identified by DNA in 2005 and jailed eight years in 2006.
Webster Hubbell
Webster Lee (Webb) Hubbell, born 1948, Arkansas lawyer, Rose Law Firm managing partner, Little Rock mayor, and Clinton associate attorney general; convicted 1994 of billing fraud, later subject of United States v. Hubbell (2000).
Weev
Weev, Andrew Auernheimer (born 1985), American hacker and troll behind the 2010 AT&T iPad email breach; CFAA conviction vacated in 2014; later Daily Stormer webmaster.
Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen
Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen (born 1959) is a Norwegian jurist, Oslo District Court judge 2007–2014 and Supreme Court justice 2014–2026, best known as presiding judge of the 2012 Breivik 22 July trial.
Wende Correctional Facility
Wende Correctional Facility is a maximum-security New York State DOCCS prison for men in Alden, Erie County, opened 1983 on the former Erie County Penitentiary site; it hosts a Regional Medical Unit and Mental Health Service Level 1 care.
Wendy B. Vitter
Wendy Baldwin Vitter is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Wendy Beetlestone
Wendy Beetlestone is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, and became chief judge in 2025.
Wendy W. Berger
Wendy Williams Berger is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Weregild
Weregild, also spelled wergeld, was a fixed payment compensating for the killing or wounding of a free person, serving as an alternative to blood feud in early medieval Germanic law.
Wesley L. Hsu
Wesley L. Hsu is a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2023, previously a federal prosecutor specializing in cyber and intellectual property crimes.
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937): 5–4 Supreme Court ruling upholding Washington's $14.50 weekly minimum wage for women, overruling Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and ending the Lochner era of striking down economic regulation.
West Memphis Three
The West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., were convicted in 1994 of the 1993 West Memphis, Arkansas murders of three eight-year-old boys, released in 2011 via Alford plea after DNA testing excluded them, and continue seeking exoneration.
West Mesa murders
The West Mesa murders are the unsolved killings of 11 women whose skeletal remains were found in makeshift graves on Albuquerque's West Mesa in February 2009.