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2026 TCS Nashik workplace harassment case
The 2026 TCS Nashik workplace harassment case concerns nine FIRs and eight arrests of employees at Tata Consultancy Services' Nashik BPO over alleged sexual harassment, rape, and religious coercion, with an SIT probe, NCW findings of POSH non-compliance, and subsequent bail orders.
2026 Trenton shooting
2026 Trenton shooting: mass shootings in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2026, chiefly the August 30 Locust Street block party shooting (2 dead, 8 wounded) and the June 9 Centre-Furman shooting (7 wounded); no arrests announced, investigations by Mercer County authorities.
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting
2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting: February 10, 2026 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in which 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people, including five children at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, before suicide; 27 wounded; later OpenAI lawsuits and a U.S. conspiracy charge.
2026 United Kingdom rape sentencing controversy
2026 UK rape sentencing controversy: dispute over the Sentencing Act 2026 Progression Model's earlier release of standard determinate sentence prisoners; rape, child sex, grooming, unlawful killing and indecent assault were excluded after Andy Burnham's July 2026 pause.
2028 in public domain
2028 in public domain: works whose copyright expires January 1, 2028, chiefly US publications of 1932 under the 95-year term and works of authors who died in 1957 in life-plus-70 countries like the UK.
2029 in public domain
2029 in public domain: US works copyrighted in 1933, including the King Kong film, and 1928 sound recordings enter the US public domain January 1, 2029; Canada has no new entries until 2043.
21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (P.L. 119-101), also called the ROAD to Housing Act, is a 2026 US federal housing law combining S. 2651 and H.R. 6644; enacted July 11, 2026 without Trump's signature, it streamlines permitting, removes the manufactured-home chassis rule, raises FHA loan limits, and limits institutional investors to 350 single-family homes.
457 plan
A 457 plan, or 457(b) deferred compensation plan, is a tax-advantaged US retirement plan for state/local government and tax-exempt employers, with a $24,500 limit in 2026 and penalty-free early withdrawal for governmental plans.
99-year lease
A 99-year lease is a fixed-term leasehold grant common in English land law and state land systems in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Kenya; distinct from freehold and from the 999-year lease variant.
999-year lease
999-year lease, a very long leasehold term used in UK property and colonial Hong Kong land grants; distinguished from the 990-year statutory lease extension created by the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 and from 999-year enfranchisement leasebacks at peppercorn rent.
999-year leases in Hong Kong
999-year leases in Hong Kong: the longest land lease term ever granted there, offered by application from 1849 to 1898 and abandoned after May 1898. About 4,000 lots carry indefinite or 999-year terms; Taikoo Shing is a notable example, and such property traded at a 5.74% premium over 99-year leases.
A Civil Action (film)
A Civil Action is a 1998 American legal drama directed by Steven Zaillian and starring John Travolta, Robert Duvall, and John Lithgow, adapted from Jonathan Harr's nonfiction book.
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Locke's 1689 Epistola de Tolerantia, written in Latin exile in Holland, argues the magistrate cannot coerce belief, defines church and state spheres, excludes atheists and Catholics, and shaped the First Amendment.
A. Joe Fish
A. Joe Fish, born Allen Joe Fish in 1942, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in the Northern District of Texas.
A. K. Fazlul Huq
A. K. Fazlul Huq, also known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengali statesman who presented the Lahore Resolution in 1940 and served as first Prime Minister of Bengal.
A. M. Quattlebaum, Jr.
A. M. Quattlebaum, Jr., also known as A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Fourth Circuit since 2018.
A. V. Dicey
A. V. Dicey (1835–1922), Oxford Vinerian Professor, wrote Law of the Constitution (1885), defining parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and constitutional conventions as the framework of the British constitution.
A&O Shearman
A&O Shearman (Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP) is a global law firm created May 1, 2024 by merging Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling: nearly 4,000 lawyers, 47 offices in 29 countries, about $3.5 billion revenue, led by Khalid Garousha, Adam Hakki, and Hervé Ekué.
Aakash Singh (government official)
Aakash Singh, American DOJ official and former assistant U.S. attorney (North Carolina, Florida), became associate then principal associate deputy attorney general from 2025, overseeing the 93 U.S. attorneys' offices; distinct from Aakash Kumar Singh, Delhi panel counsel.
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr (1756–1836), American lawyer and third U.S. vice president (1801–1805), New York Attorney General and senator; killed Alexander Hamilton in the 1804 Weehawken duel and was acquitted at the 1807 treason trial.
Aaron C. Peterson
Aaron C. Peterson, also known as Aaron Christian Peterson, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Alaska since 2026.
Aaron Ford (Nevada politician)
Aaron Ford, born in 1972, is an American Democratic politician, Nevada's attorney general since 2019 and its first African American statewide constitutional officer, now the 2026 Democratic nominee for governor.
Aaron Frey
Aaron Frey is an American lawyer and Democrat who has served as Maine's attorney general since 2019, after representing Bangor and Orono in the Maine House from 2012 to 2018.
Aaron Kosminski
Aaron Kosminski (Aron Mordke Kozminski), Polish-Jewish barber in Whitechapel, named a Jack the Ripper suspect in the 1894 Macnaghten memorandum and Swanson marginalia; asylum records show committal to Colney Hatch in 1891 and death in 1919. A contested 2019 mtDNA shawl claim links him to the murders.
Aaron Persky
Aaron Persky, born Michael Aaron Persky, is a former judge of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, California, recalled by voters in June 2018 after his lenient sentencing of Brock Turner.
Aatsista-Mahkan
Aatsista-Mahkan (Running Rabbit), c. 1833 to January 1911, was a Siksika (Blackfoot) warrior, leader of the Biters band, and head chief who signed Treaty 7 in 1877 and led farming adaptation on the Alberta reserve.
Ab initio
Ab initio, Latin for "from the beginning", is a legal term in "void ab initio", meaning an act invalid from inception, never legally effective, and incapable of ratification; also a first-principles label in physics.
Abd al-Haqq al-Suhmi
Abd al-Haqq al-Suhmi (عبد الحق السهمي) was a Sunni Maliki jurist of Sicilian origin who studied in Qayrawan, made repeated pilgrimages to Mecca, and died in Alexandria in 1073.
Abd al-Haqq ibn Khalaf al-Dimashqi
Abd al-Haqq ibn Khalaf al-Dimashqi was a Sunni Hanbali jurist and hadith transmitter, imam of the Masjid al-Arza, born 1152 and died in 1243, known through biographical dictionaries.
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad al-Ifriqi
Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad al-Ifriqi (عبد الرحمن بن زياد الإفريقي) was a judge and hadith transmitter of Ifriqiya, remembered for admonishing the caliph al-Mansur over injustice.