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Claire Eagan
Claire Eagan, born 1950, is a senior US district judge in Oklahoma, appointed by George W. Bush and a FISA Court judge from 2013 to 2019.
Claire R. Kelly
Claire Rita Kelly (born 1965) is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of International Trade since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Clan del Golfo
Clan del Golfo (Gulf Clan), also AGC/Urabeños and since 2024 Ejército Gaitanista de Colombia, is Colombia's largest illegal armed drug-trafficking group, founded in 2006 from AUC paramilitary remnants, active in hundreds of municipalities.
Clare's Law
Clare's Law, formally the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS), is a police policy in England and Wales, named for Clare Wood, letting people ask police about a partner's violence history; rolled out March 2014.
Claremont serial killings
Claremont serial killings: 1996-97 Perth disappearances of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon; Bradley Robert Edwards convicted in 2020 of two murders after Operation Macro, Australia's longest unsolved murder investigation.
Clarence Cooper (judge)
Clarence Cooper, born in 1942, is an American jurist who served as a US district judge for the Northern District of Georgia from 1994 to 2021.
Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938), American labor and criminal defense lawyer, defended Debs in the 1894 Pullman Strike, saved Leopold and Loeb from execution in 1924, and faced William Jennings Bryan in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.
Clarence Earl Gideon
Clarence Earl Gideon, Florida drifter whose 1961 burglary trial without counsel led to Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that states must appoint lawyers for indigent felony defendants.
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice since 1991 (nominated by George H. W. Bush, confirmed 52-48), known for originalism and textualism, weak deference to precedent, Bruen (2022), and ethics controversies.
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination
Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination: George H. W. Bush's July 1, 1991 nomination of Thomas to succeed Thurgood Marshall; Anita Hill's sexual-harassment testimony; confirmed 52-48 on October 15, 1991, closest margin in a century.
Claria H. Boom
Claria Horn Boom, born 1969, is an American jurist who has served as a federal district judge in both eastern and western Kentucky since 2018.
Clark Amendment
The Clark Amendment, a US law enacted in 1976, barred American aid to any group fighting in Angola's civil war until its repeal in 1985.
Clark Olofsson
Clark Olofsson (Daniel Demuynck), 1947–2025, Swedish career criminal and bank robber brought from prison into the 1973 Norrmalmstorg hostage drama that gave rise to the term Stockholm syndrome; later drug smuggler, subject of Netflix's Clark.
Clark Perry Baldwin
Clark Perry Baldwin (born 1961), Iowa long-haul trucker and accused serial killer, charged in the 1991 murder of pregnant Pamela McCall in Tennessee and two 1992 Wyoming murders (Bitter Creek Betty/Irene Vasquez, I-90 Jane Doe/Cindi Arleen Estrada); identified 2020 via genetic genealogy, convicted 2025, died July 2025.
Clark Waddoups
Clark Waddoups (born 1946) is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the District of Utah, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008.
Class action
Class action: a procedural device letting one or more plaintiffs sue on behalf of a larger group, governed in U.S. federal court by FRCP Rule 23 (numerosity, commonality, typicality, adequacy; b(1)-(b)(3) types), with origins in 1938 and the 1966 revision.
Classical treatises on international arbitration
Classical treatises on international arbitration are the scholarly works named in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica's authorities list, published between 1887 and 1902, documenting a boom in arbitral practice.
Claude M. Hilton
Claude M. Hilton (born 1940) is an American jurist and retired US district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Claude Villeneuve (judge)
Claude Villeneuve is a Canadian jurist who served as a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec for Saint-François and Bedford, seated in Sherbrooke, until 2026.
Claudia A. Wilken
Claudia A. Wilken is a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of California, appointed by President Clinton in 1993 and chief judge from 2012 to 2014.
Claudia Ochoa Félix
Claudia Ochoa Félix (1987–2019), Mexican influencer known as La Emperatriz de los Ántrax and the Kim Kardashian of the narco, was reported to lead the Sinaloa Cartel's Los Ántrax, denied it, and died of bronchoaspiration in Culiacán in 2019.
Claudius Vermilye
Claudius I. Vermilye, Jr. (died June 22, 2018), American Episcopal priest defrocked after his 1977 conviction for sexually exploiting boys at Boys Farm, Inc. in Monteagle, Tennessee; appeal Vermilye v. State, 584 S.W.2d 226 (Tenn. 1979), affirmed a 25-to-40-year sentence.
Claus von Bülow
Claus von Bülow (Claus Cecil Borberg, 1926–2019), Danish-born socialite; convicted 1982 of attempting to murder heiress wife Sunny by insulin injection, conviction reversed 1984, acquitted at 1985 retrial; subject of Reversal of Fortune.
Clay D. Land
Clay D. Land is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Georgia since 2001, appointed by George W. Bush.
Clay family murders
Clay family murders: March 28, 1988 Nashville killings of Angela Clay and daughters Latoya and Lakeisha by Byron Lewis Black, Angela's boyfriend; he was sentenced to death and executed in 2025.
Clay Shaw
Clay Lavergne Shaw (1913–1974), New Orleans businessman and International Trade Mart director; only person tried for conspiracy in the JFK assassination; acquitted in 1969; CIA domestic contact 1948–1956.
Clayton Fountain
Clayton Anthony Fountain (1955-2004), US Marine-turned-federal prisoner, killed five people including Officer Robert Hoffmann at USP Marion on October 22, 1983, triggering Marion's permanent lockdown and the supermax model, then converted to Catholicism in isolation.
Clean Air Act (United States)
The Clean Air Act, also known as the Muskie Act, is the United States federal law regulating air emissions from power plants, factories, and vehicles, first enacted in 1955.
Clean Air Act 1956
The Clean Air Act 1956 was a UK law, the first nationwide legislation against air pollution, introducing smoke control areas after the Great Smog of London of 1952.
Clean slate and continuity theories of treaty succession
The clean slate and continuity theories of treaty succession are rival doctrines on whether a new state inherits its predecessor's treaties, addressed by the 1978 Vienna Convention.