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Grigory Morozov
Grigory Iosifovich Morozov (Григорий Иосифович Морозов, 1921–2001), Soviet jurist and UN law specialist at IMEMO and MGIMO, first husband of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva; distinct from general Grigory Fyodorovich Morozov and footballer Grigoriy Morozov.
Grim Sleeper
The Grim Sleeper, serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., murdered 10 women in South Los Angeles 1985-2007; identified 2010 via familial DNA and a discarded pizza crust, convicted 2016, sentenced to death.
Griselda Blanco
Griselda Blanco Restrepo (1943–2012), the "Godmother of Cocaine" and "Black Widow" (La Madrina), was a Colombian drug trafficker who pioneered cocaine pipelines to New York and Miami in the 1970s–80s, was indicted in Operation Banshee in 1975, imprisoned in 1985, deported in 2004, and shot dead in Medellín in 2012.
Griswold v. Connecticut
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), a 7-2 Supreme Court decision finding a constitutional right to privacy in Bill of Rights penumbras, striking Connecticut's 1879 ban on contraceptive use for married couples.
Grod court
The grod court (Polish sąd grodzki, also starosta court) was an estate criminal court in Poland and Lithuania presided over by the king's deputy, the starosta.
Grok sexual deepfake scandal
Grok sexual deepfake scandal: late December 2025 outbreak of nonconsensual sexualized AI images, including of minors, made with Elon Musk's xAI Grok on X; over 6,000 per hour at peak, followed by bans, investigations, and a Canadian PIPEDA violation finding.
Grooming gangs scandal
The UK grooming gangs scandal: group-based child sexual exploitation in towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham, the 2014 Jay report, the 2025 Casey audit, and the national inquiry chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield from 2026.
Groping
Groping is non-consensual sexual touching of intimate body areas. Not a formal legal term; charged as sexual battery, forcible touching, indecent assault, or abusive sexual contact (18 USC 2244), usually a misdemeanor in the US.
Gross negligence
Gross negligence is an extreme, willful, wanton, and reckless departure from the ordinary standard of care in tort law, sitting between ordinary negligence and intentional wrongdoing, carrying higher damages, voided waivers, and, in English law, gross negligence manslaughter.
Ground rent
Ground rent: recurring leasehold payment to a freeholder for the land, unrelated to services; in England and Wales capped at a peppercorn for new leases by the 2022 Act, with a £250 cap proposed for existing leases.
Grounds for divorce (United States)
Grounds for divorce in the United States are fault grounds (adultery, cruelty, abandonment) or no-fault grounds (irreconcilable differences, irretrievable breakdown). All 50 states offer no-fault divorce after California's 1969 Family Law Act; 33 states retain fault grounds, 17 allow no-fault only.
Grounds of invalidity of treaties
The grounds of invalidity of treaties are the circumstances under the 1969 Vienna Convention, Articles 46 to 53, under which a State's consent to a treaty can be shown invalid.
Group Areas Act
Group Areas Act (Act 41 of 1950), cornerstone apartheid statute of South Africa, also called GAA; assigned residence and property by race, displaced over 600,000 people including District Six, repealed 1991.
Grutter v. Bollinger
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), Supreme Court case upholding the University of Michigan Law School's race-conscious admissions as narrowly tailored to diversity, companion to Gratz, effectively overruled by SFFA v. Harvard in 2023.
Guadalajara Cartel
Guadalajara Cartel (Cártel de Guadalajara), a Mexican drug trafficking organization of the early 1980s founded by Félix Gallardo, Caro Quintero, and Fonseca Carrillo; precursor of the Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Juárez cartels; linked to DEA agent Camarena's 1985 murder.
Guano Islands Act
Guano Islands Act: U.S. law of August 18, 1856 (11 Stat. 119; 48 U.S.C. §§ 1411–1419) letting citizens claim unclaimed guano islands for the United States; upheld in Jones v. United States (1890).
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp: U.S. military prison at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, opened January 2002 for war-on-terror detainees; about 780 held total, 36 remained in 2022; site of Boumediene habeas ruling and, since 2025, migrant detention.
Guantanamo Bay migrant camps
The Guantanamo Bay migrant camps are detention facilities for Haitian and Cuban migrants at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, used mainly from 1991 to 1996.
Guarantor of the imperial constitution
A guarantor of the imperial constitution was a power, chiefly France and Sweden, entrusted by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 with upholding the Holy Roman Empire's constitutional settlement.
Guardia Urbana crime
Guardia Urbana crime (el crimen de la Guardia Urbana): 2017 murder of Barcelona municipal officer Pedro Rodríguez by fellow officers Rosa María Peral and Albert López, his partner and her ex-lover; body burned in a car near the Foix reservoir; 25- and 20-year sentences confirmed in 2021; basis of Netflix's El cuerpo en llamas.
Guardianship of Infants Act 1964
Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7 of 1964), Irish statute consolidating custody and guardianship law; welfare of the child paramount, unmarried father guardianship after 12 months' cohabitation, amended by 2015 and 2026 Acts.
Guatemala–Mexico border
The Guatemala–Mexico border is the international boundary between Guatemala and the Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and Campeche, fixed by a treaty of 1882 and running about 956 kilometers.
Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case
Guðmundar- og Geirfinnsmálið, the Reykjavík confessions: two Icelandic men vanished in 1974, six people were convicted on coerced confessions in 1980, and five were acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2018.
Guido Calabresi
Guido Calabresi, born 1932 in Milan, Italy, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Guildford Four and Maguire Seven
Guildford Four and Maguire Seven: eleven people wrongly convicted in 1975 and 1976 for the 1974 IRA Guildford and Woolwich bombings; convictions quashed in 1989 and 1991 after flawed confessions and unreliable nitroglycerine forensic tests.
Guillotine
Guillotine: beheading machine adopted by France in 1792 on Joseph-Ignace Guillotin's proposal, designed by Antoine Louis; France's sole execution method until abolition by the 1981 loi Badinter.
Gulf Cartel
Gulf Cartel (Cártel del Golfo, CDG), a Tamaulipas-based Mexican drug trafficking organization dating to 1930s alcohol smuggler Juan Nepomuceno Guerra; once dominant nationally, it spawned Los Zetas and has since fractured into warring factions and was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2025.
Gun buyback program
Gun buyback programs purchase voluntarily surrendered firearms with public funds to reduce gun violence. US city buybacks show little measurable crime effect, while Australia's compulsory 1996 national buyback is linked to large falls in firearm deaths.
Gun control
Gun control, or firearms regulation, comprises laws governing civilian manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, and use of guns; in the United States it spans the NFA of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, state laws, and Bruen-era constitutional tests.
Gun Control Act of 1968
Gun Control Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-618, 18 U.S.C. ch. 44), the primary U.S. federal firearms statute: licensing of dealers, prohibited persons, age limits, interstate sale rules, sporting-purposes import test; amended by FOPA, Brady Act, and BSCA.