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Burglary
Burglary: the crime of unlawfully entering or remaining in a building with intent to commit a crime inside; also called breaking and entering or housebreaking. Covers common law elements, modern statutes, sentencing, prevalence, and prevention.
Burgomaster
Burgomaster, or Bürgermeister, is the title for the chief municipal magistrate of a town in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium, first recorded in English in 1592 from the Dutch burgemeester.
Burke and Hare murders
The Burke and Hare murders, or West Port murders, were at least sixteen killings in Edinburgh in 1827–1828 by William Burke and William Hare, who sold victims' bodies to anatomist Robert Knox; Burke was hanged in 1829 and the case led to the Anatomy Act 1832.
Burl Cain
Burl Cain (Nathan Burl Cain) is an American corrections administrator, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola 1995-2015 and Mississippi corrections commissioner from 2020, known for faith-based prison seminary programs and for criticism over religious establishment and medical care.
Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd
Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd [1994] HCA 13; (1994) 179 CLR 520, High Court of Australia tort case in which the majority (Mason CJ, Deane, Dawson, Toohey, Gaudron JJ) subsumed the Rylands v Fletcher strict liability rule into ordinary negligence via a non-delegable duty of care.
Burning Sun scandal
Burning Sun scandal: 2019 South Korean scandal around the Gangnam nightclub co-run by BIGBANG's Seungri, involving drugs, prostitution, illegal spycam chatrooms, police bribery and collusion; Jung Joon-young received 6 years, Choi Jong-hoon 5 years.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014): 5-4 Supreme Court ruling holding that RFRA lets closely held for-profit corporations with religious objections, like Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood, refuse ACA contraceptive coverage.
Bush v. Gore
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), Supreme Court per curiam decision halting the Florida recount; 7-2 equal protection holding, 5-4 remedy, delivering the presidency to George W. Bush over Al Gore, 271-266 electoral votes.
Bushranger
Bushrangers were outlaws who lived by robbery in the Australian bush, from escaped convict John 'Black' Caesar (1788) through the gold-rush gangs to Ned Kelly's gang, captured at Glenrowan in 1880 in improvised plough-steel armour.
Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (1762-1829), nephew and heir of George Washington, was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1798 to 1829, author of Corfield v. Coryell and Ogden v. Saunders, and John Marshall's close collaborator.
Buster Edwards
Buster Edwards (Ronald Christopher Edwards, 1931–1994) was a Great Train Robbery gang member who fled to Mexico, served nine years, and later ran a famous flower stall at Waterloo station, played by Phil Collins in the 1988 film Buster.
Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy, alias of Robert LeRoy Parker (born 1866), American outlaw who led the Wild Bunch gang robbing banks and trains, fled to Argentina, and reportedly died in San Vicente, Bolivia, in 1908, a death that remains disputed.
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, also called the Hole in the Wall Gang, was a loose band of Old West outlaws led by Cassidy and Kid Curry, robbing banks and trains from the late 1880s to about 1903 before fleeing to South America.
Butler Act
Butler Act refers to two laws: Tennessee's 1925 anti-evolution statute by John Washington Butler, which triggered the Scopes trial, and the UK Education Act 1944, R.A. Butler's free secondary education reform.
By-law
A by-law, also spelled byelaw, is a local law made by a council or delegated body under a statutory enabling power, carrying penalties, with force of law in its area; US and Canadian usage calls municipal ordinances bylaws.
Byron De La Beckwith
Byron De La Beckwith (1920-2001), white supremacist, Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Council member, assassinated NAACP leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, June 12, 1963; two 1964 all-white juries hung; convicted 1994, died in prison.
Byron White
Byron "Whizzer" White (1917–2002), NFL rushing leader and Rhodes Scholar, was a Kennedy-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1962–1993 known for judicial restraint and dissents in Miranda and Roe.
Byzantine–Arab treaties and truces
Byzantine–Arab treaties and truces were recurring, time-limited peace and tribute agreements between the Byzantine Empire and the Umayyad and Fatimid caliphates, beginning with the thirty-year treaty of 678.
Byzantine–Sasanian treaties and truces
The Byzantine–Sasanian treaties and truces were written settlements by which Byzantium and Sasanian Persia regulated their frontier, including the peaces of 363, 532, and 562.
Byzantine–Venetian treaties and chrysobulls
The Byzantine–Venetian treaties and chrysobulls were golden-sealed imperial acts granting Venice commercial privileges, beginning in 992, before Pisa and Genoa, and continuing through renewals and crises until 1453.
C corporation
A C corporation is the default US federal tax classification of a corporation under Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code, taxed at a flat 21 percent with double taxation of dividends, unlimited shareholders, and Form 1120 filing, contrasted with the S corporation election.
C. A. Royal
C. Ashley Royal is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
C. D. Jones II
C. D. Jones II, also known as C. Darnell Jones, II, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, confirmed in 2008.
C. Rajagopalachari (சக்ரவர்த்தி ராஜகோபாலாச்சாரி)
C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji, சக்ரவர்த்தி ராஜகோபாலாச்சாரி), 1878–1972, Indian statesman: last and first Indian Governor-General of India, Madras Premier and Chief Minister, Swatantra Party founder, Bharat Ratna laureate, and Sahitya Akademi-winning reteller of the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
C. Sankaran Nair
C. Sankaran Nair (Chettur Sankaran Nair, 1857-1934), Kerala-born jurist: Madras High Court judge, 1897 INC president at Amraoti, resigned the Viceroy's Executive Council after Jallianwala Bagh, and lost O'Dwyer's 1924 London libel case 11-1.
Cabinda War
Cabinda War: armed conflict since 1975 between Angola and FLEC separatists fighting for independence of the oil-rich Cabinda exclave, rooted in the 1885 Treaty of Simulambuco and rejected Alvor Agreement, ending with the 2006 memorandum and sporadic later attacks.
Cabinet Legislation Bureau
The Cabinet Legislation Bureau (内閣法制局) is the organ of the Japanese Cabinet that examines bills, orders, and treaties and gives official opinions on interpreting laws.
Caffey family murders
Caffey family murders: 2008 triple homicide near Alba, Rains County, Texas, planned by 16-year-old Erin Caffey with Charlie Wilkinson, Charles Waid, and Bobbi Johnson; Penny Caffey and sons Matthew and Tyler were killed, father Terry survived, and all four defendants pleaded guilty.
Cal Brown
Cal Coburn Brown (born 1958) was a Washington State murderer executed by lethal injection on September 10, 2010, for the 1991 rape, torture, and murder of Holly Washa near SeaTac; the last person executed in Washington before its 2018 death penalty abolition.
Calcutta High Court (কলকাতা উচ্চ আদালত)
Calcutta High Court (কলকাতা উচ্চ আদালত), also called High Court at Calcutta, is India's oldest High Court, established 1 July 1862 by Letters Patent under the High Courts Act 1861, covering West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.