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Bruce Buck
Bruce Michael Buck, American lawyer and founding head of Skadden's London office, chaired Chelsea FC from 2004 to 2022 after brokering Roman Abramovich's 2003 takeover, overseeing 18 major men's trophies before stepping down under new ownership.
Bruce Doucette
Bruce A. Doucette, a Littleton, Colorado sovereign citizen who styled himself 'Superior Court Judge of the Continental uNited States of America,' ran fake common-law courts and filed bogus liens against officials; convicted of 34 felony counts in 2018 and sentenced to 38 years.
Bruce H. Hendricks
Bruce H. Hendricks is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of South Carolina since 2014, after twelve years as a magistrate judge.
Bruce H. Mann
Bruce H. Mann, Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, American legal historian of law, debt, and bankruptcy in early America; author of Neighbors and Strangers and Republic of Debtors; husband of Senator Elizabeth Warren; ASLH president 2011-2013.
Bruce Johnston (criminal)
Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (1939–2002), Pennsylvania crime boss, led the Johnston Gang burglary ring in Chester County and was convicted in 1980 of six first-degree murders, inspiring the film At Close Range.
Bruce M. Davis
Bruce M. Davis (1942–2026) was an American murderer and Manson Family lieutenant convicted in 1972 of the 1969 killings of Gary Hinman and Donald Shea.
Bruce Reynolds
Bruce Richard Reynolds (1931-2013), nicknamed "Napoleon", was the English career criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery, stealing £2,631,684 from a Glasgow-London mail train, then spent years on the run before a 25-year sentence.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary (Brushy) was Tennessee's first maximum-security prison, built in 1896 at Petros, Morgan County, after the Coal Creek War; convict-mined coal, James Earl Ray's 1977 escape, closure June 11, 2009, and 2018 reopening as a distillery and tourist site.
Brussels II Regulation
Brussels II Regulation: EU regulations (1347/2000, 2201/2003 Brussels IIa, 2019/1111 Brussels IIb) allocating jurisdiction and governing recognition of cross-border divorce, separation, annulment, and parental responsibility judgments; applies to all EU Member States except Denmark.
Bryan Patrick Miller
Bryan Patrick Miller, the "Zombie Hunter," is an Arizona death row inmate convicted in 2023 of the 1992 and 1993 Phoenix canal murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas, identified via forensic genealogy.
Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson (born 1959) is an American public interest lawyer, Harvard-trained founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama; death penalty defender, Miller v. Alabama victor, Just Mercy author, and creator of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Buck Barrow
Buck Barrow (Marvin Ivan Barrow, 1903-1933), Clyde Barrow's older brother, joined the Barrow Gang with wife Blanche after a March 1933 pardon; wounded near Dexter, Iowa, he died July 29, 1933.
Buck v. Bell
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927): Supreme Court case upholding Virginia's compulsory sterilization law, 8–1, in Holmes's "three generations of imbeciles" opinion; never overturned.
Buckley v. Valeo
Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), the landmark Supreme Court campaign finance decision upholding FECA contribution limits and disclosure while striking down expenditure limits and the original FEC appointment method.
Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family, also called the Scranton Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia organization based in northeastern Pennsylvania, named after boss Russell Bufalino.
Buffalo crime family
Buffalo crime family, also called the Magaddino family or "The Arm," is a La Cosa Nostra organization based in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, led by Stefano Magaddino from 1922 to 1969, active in labor racketeering, gambling, and southern Ontario, and the subject of renewed federal prosecutions since 2024.
Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran (Adelard Cunin) led Chicago's North Side Gang during Prohibition as Al Capone's chief rival; his gang suffered the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and he died in prison in 1957.
Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel (Benjamin Siegelbaum, 1906–1947), Brooklyn-born Jewish-American gangster, Murder, Inc. founder, Los Angeles syndicate boss, and builder of the Flamingo Hotel, murdered in Beverly Hills in 1947.
Buke hō
Buke hō (武家法) is the body of law developed by Japan's warrior class and warrior governments from the late twelfth century, first written as the Goseibai shikimoku of 1232.
Bulgaria–Romania relations
Bulgaria–Romania relations: bilateral ties between two lower-Danube, Black Sea neighbours; 1879 diplomatic relations, 1940 Treaty of Craiova, 1992 friendship treaty, joint NATO 2004 and EU 2007 accession, 2023 strategic partnership, 9.71 billion euro 2024 trade.
Bum Farto
Bum Farto (Joseph Anthony Farto, 1919–disappeared 1976) was Key West, Florida's fire chief, convicted in Operation Conch of selling cocaine and marijuana, who vanished before sentencing; his fate inspired "Where Is Bum Farto?" t-shirts and a 2022 musical.
Bumpy Johnson
Bumpy Johnson (Ellsworth Raymond Johnson, 1905-1968), Harlem crime boss and "Godfather of Harlem" subject, enforcer for Stephanie St. Clair, Dutch Schultz rival, Genovese ally, Alcatraz inmate, mentor of Frank Lucas.
Bundy standoff
Bundy standoff: April 2014 armed confrontation at Cliven Bundy's Bunkerville, Nevada ranch, where Bundy and militia supporters forced the BLM to abandon a court-ordered cattle impoundment over $1 million in unpaid federal grazing fees; prosecutions later collapsed over Brady violations.
Burden of proof (law)
Burden of proof (law): the obligation to prove facts in a case, comprising the burden of production (producing evidence) and burden of persuasion (degree of belief); civil preponderance versus criminal beyond reasonable doubt.
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines)
Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), formerly the Bureau of Prisons, is the Philippine Department of Justice agency holding PDLs sentenced to over three years in seven prisons and penal farms, including New Bilibid Prison, planned for closure by 2028.
Burger Chef murders
The Burger Chef murders: the unsolved November 17, 1978 robbery-abduction and murder of four young employees, Friedt, Shelton, Flemmonds, and Davis, at a Speedway, Indiana Burger Chef; bodies found November 19 in Johnson County.
Burger Court
Burger Court, the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, 1969–1986; decided Roe v. Wade, United States v. Nixon, and Lemon v. Kurtzman; transitional era between Warren and Rehnquist Courts.
Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois)
Burger King (Mattoon, Illinois) is an independent hamburger restaurant founded by Gene and Betty Hoots, unrelated to the Burger King chain; a 1968 Seventh Circuit ruling lets it use the name only within 20 miles of Mattoon.
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch
The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, known as the BGB or German Civil Code, is Germany's civil code, enacted in 1896 and in force since 1900, regulating contracts, property, family, and inheritance.
Burgess (title)
Burgess (title): a freeman of a medieval or early modern borough, also a borough magistrate, voter, or Member of Parliament; from Old French burgeis, with rights gained by birth, apprenticeship, marriage, or purchase.