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Luxembourg Crisis
The Luxembourg Crisis was a Franco-Prussian diplomatic confrontation of 1867 over France's attempted purchase of Luxembourg, resolved peacefully by the Treaty of London of 11 May 1867.
Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος)
Lycurgus (Λυκοῦργος), semi-legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited via Plutarch's Life and the Great Rhetra with Sparta's constitution, messes, and agoge; his dating and very existence are disputed.
Lydia K. Griggsby
Lydia Kay Griggsby, born 1968 in Baltimore, is an American jurist appointed by President Biden in 2021 as a district judge for the District of Maryland, after serving on the Court of Federal Claims.
Lyle and Erik Menendez
Lyle and Erik Menendez, American brothers convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in Beverly Hills; hung 1993 juries, 1996 life-without-parole convictions, 2025 resentencing to 50 years to life, and denied parole.
Lynching of Jesse Washington
The lynching of Jesse Washington, known as the Waco Horror, was the 1916 mob torture and burning of a seventeen-year-old Black farmhand in Waco, Texas.
Lynching of Michael Donald
Lynching of Michael Donald: 1981 Ku Klux Klan killing of 19-year-old Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, recorded as the last documented US lynching; his mother's civil suit bankrupted the United Klans of America.
Lynda Lyon Block
Lynda Lyon Block (1948–2002), also known as Lynda Lyon, was an American anti-government activist executed in Alabama's electric chair on May 10, 2002 for the 1993 murder of Opelika police sergeant Roger Lamar Motley, the first woman executed in Alabama since 1957.
Lynn Compton
Lynn "Buck" Compton (1921-2012), Easy Company lieutenant in Band of Brothers, Los Angeles chief deputy DA who led the Sirhan Sirhan prosecution, and California Court of Appeal justice appointed by Reagan in 1970.
Lynn Fitch
Lynn Fitch is an American Republican politician and Attorney General of Mississippi since 2020 who led the Dobbs case overturning Roe v. Wade and is running for governor.
Lynn N. Hughes
Lynn N. Hughes, also known as Lynn Nettleton Hughes, is an American former United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President Reagan in 1985.
Lynn Toler
Lynn Candace Toler (born 1959, Columbus, Ohio) is an American lawyer, former Cleveland Heights Municipal Court judge, and TV personality, presiding judge of Divorce Court 2006–2020 and host of Marriage Boot Camp and Commit or Quit.
Lyttleton Constitution
The Lyttleton Constitution was the 1954 constitution of colonial Nigeria, named for Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, which established a federation of regions and remained in force until independence in 1960.
M. A. Sumanthiran
M. A. Sumanthiran (Mathiaparanan Abraham Sumanthiran, ம. ஆ. சுமந்திரன்), Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and President's Counsel; TNA/ITAK National List MP 2010–2015 and Jaffna District MP 2015–2024; lost his seat in the 2024 election.
M. C. Armijo
M. C. Armijo, also known as M. Christina Armijo, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
M. D. Harpool
M. Douglas Harpool, born 1956 in Springfield, Missouri, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Missouri, appointed by President Obama in 2014.
M. Hannah Lauck
Mary Hannah Lauck is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
M. J. Lorenz
M. James Lorenz, born 1935, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of California, appointed by President Clinton in 1999.
M. M. Baker
M. M. Baker, also known as M. Miller Baker, is an American jurist appointed by President Trump in 2019 to the United States Court of International Trade.
M. M. McKeown
M. M. McKeown, also known as M. Margaret McKeown, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998.
M. P. Jayaraj
M. P. Jayaraj (எம். பி. ஜெயராஜ்), Mysore Puttaswamaiah Jayaraj (1947–1989), Bengaluru's first underworld don, not a Chennai figure: Congress-linked Indira Brigade leader, convicted in the 1977 courtroom sword attack, assassinated 21 November 1989 by Muttappa Rai with D-gang shooters.
M'Naghten rules
The M'Naghten rules, also spelled McNaghten, are the 1843 English legal test for criminal insanity: a defect of reason from disease of the mind leaving the defendant unaware of the act's nature or wrongfulness, still used in about half of US states.
M25 Three
The M25 Three were Raphael Rowe, Michael Davis, and Randolph Johnson, three Black Londoners convicted in 1990 of a 1988 murder and robberies near the M25 in Surrey.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker (Arizona Donnie Clark Barker, Kate Barker, 1873–1935), American matriarch tied to the Barker-Karpis gang of bank robbers and kidnappers, killed by FBI agents at Lake Weir, Florida, January 16, 1935; later reassessed as unlikely gang mastermind.
Maame E. Frimpong
Maame E. Frimpong, born 1976, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Maathorneferure
Maathorneferure, Hittite princess, daughter of Hattusili III and Puduhepa, married Ramesses II in his regnal year 34; her Hittite birth name is unknown and she is attested by the Marriage Stelae.
Mablean Ephriam
Mablean Ephriam (born 1949, Hazlehurst, Mississippi) is an American lawyer and TV judge, first woman and Black person to preside over Divorce Court (1999-2006), now host of Justice with Judge Mablean and Madea film judge.
Mabo v Queensland (No 2)
Mabo v Queensland (No 2), also called the Mabo decision, is the 1992 High Court of Australia case that recognized native title in Australian common law and rejected terra nullius, entitling the Meriam people to the Murray Islands and leading to the Native Title Act 1993.
Macdonald triad
The Macdonald triad, or homicidal triad, is John Macdonald's 1963 set of three childhood behaviors, animal cruelty, firesetting, and enuresis, once thought to predict adult violence and serial murder but now largely unsupported empirically.
Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)
Machine Gun Kelly, born George Kelly Barnes (1895 or 1897–1954), was an American Prohibition-era bootlegger, bank robber, and kidnapper who abducted oilman Charles Urschel in 1933, was captured in Memphis, and served at Alcatraz.
MACRS
MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System) is the U.S. federal tax depreciation system under IRC section 168, replacing ACRS for property placed in service after 1986, with GDS and ADS recovery periods of 3 to 39 years.