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Malmedy massacre trial
The Malmedy massacre trial, also called the Dachau Malmedy trial, was the 1946 US Army war crimes trial of 74 Waffen-SS men, including Joachim Peiper, for killing American POWs and Belgian civilians in the Battle of the Bulge; all were convicted, and torture allegations led to commutations.
Malolos Constitution
The Malolos Constitution was the charter of the First Philippine Republic, drawn up by the revolutionary assembly at Malolos and promulgated in January 1899. It was written in Spanish and set out.
Malone Lam
Malone Lam, aka 'Anne Hathaway', is a Singaporean who pleaded guilty to leading a RICO conspiracy that stole and laundered over $245 million in cryptocurrency, including 4,100+ BTC from a Washington, D.C. victim, via social engineering, mixers, and no-KYC exchanges.
Malpractice
Malpractice, or professional negligence, is a tort in which a professional breaches a duty of care, causing harm; medical malpractice requires proving duty, breach, causation, and damages, with roots in the Code of Hammurabi and modern US litigation dating to about 1840.
Mamie Till
Mamie Till-Mobley (Mamie Bradley, 1921-2003), American educator and civil rights activist, mother of lynched teenager Emmett Till; her 1955 open-casket funeral and Jet photos galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
Mamzer
Mamzer (Hebrew ממזר): in Jewish law, a child of a forbidden union punishable by karet or death, chiefly incest or adultery; barred from marrying ordinary Jews, a status inherited for all generations, still operative in Orthodox and Israeli rabbinic practice.
Manacled Mormon case
The Manacled Mormon case, or Mormon sex-in-chains case: Joyce McKinney's 1977 alleged kidnap and rape of LDS missionary Kirk Anderson in a Devon cottage; no trial, bail jumped, later the subject of the documentary Tabloid.
Manan Kumar Mishra
Manan Kumar Mishra is an Indian Senior Advocate who has chaired the Bar Council of India since 2012 and sits in the Rajya Sabha as a BJP member from Bihar.
Mandamus
Mandamus, a common law "we command" writ, is a court order compelling officials, agencies, or lower courts to perform ministerial duties or correct clear abuses of discretion, granted only when no adequate alternative remedy exists.
Mandate (international law)
A mandate in international law was a League of Nations agreement letting a state administer territory detached from a defeated power after the First World War.
Mandate (legal history)
A League of Nations mandate was a legal instrument under Article 22 of the Covenant placing former German and Ottoman territories under Mandatory administration after the First World War.
Mandate for Palestine
Mandate for Palestine: League of Nations Class A mandate granted to Britain at San Remo (25 April 1920), confirmed 24 July 1922, embedding the Balfour Declaration's Jewish national home clause; administered until termination in May 1948, distinct from the Transjordan memorandum of 16 September 1922.
Mandate system of the Treaty of Versailles
The mandate system of the Treaty of Versailles placed former German and Ottoman territories under Allied rule on behalf of the League of Nations from 1919.
Mandatory Palestine (פלשתינה (א״י))
Mandatory Palestine (פלשתינה (א״י)): the League of Nations Class A mandate territory administered by Britain from 1920 until 14 May 1948, incorporating the Balfour Declaration's Jewish national home pledge, ending with Israeli independence.
Mandatory rules and public policy in contract conflict of laws
Mandatory rules and public policy in contract conflict of laws are limits in the EU's Rome I Regulation that let courts displace the law parties choose for a contract.
Mandatory sentencing
Mandatory sentencing, also known as mandatory minimum sentencing, is a criminal justice system in which conviction for a defined offense requires a judge to impose a statutory fixed or minimum penalty.
Manhattan Night
Manhattan Night (2016), also known as an adaptation of Manhattan Nocturne, is a Brian DeCubellis neo-noir thriller starring Adrien Brody as tabloid columnist Porter Wren, entangled in murder, blackmail, and an affair with Yvonne Strahovski's widow character.
Manish S. Shah
Manish Suresh Shah, born 1972 in New York, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, nominated by Barack Obama and confirmed 95 to 0 in 2014.
Manish Tewari (मनीष तिवारी)
Manish Tewari (मनीष तिवारी), Congress lawyer-author and three-term Lok Sabha MP, now from Chandigarh after Ludhiana and Anandpur Sahib; Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting 2012–2014; anti-defection law reformer.
Manley Ottmer Hudson
Manley Ottmer Hudson was an American international law scholar at Harvard who served as a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1936 to 1946.
Mann Act
The Mann Act, officially the White-Slave Traffic Act, is a 1910 US federal law criminalizing knowingly transporting a person across state lines for prostitution or criminal sexual activity.
Manoj Kumar Sharma (Justice)
Manoj Kumar Sharma (मनोजकुमार शर्मा), born in 1970 in Birgunj, is a Nepalese jurist serving as the 33rd Chief Justice of Nepal since May 2026.
Manslaughter
Manslaughter: unlawful homicide without the culpability for murder, split into voluntary (heat of passion) and involuntary (negligence, unlawful dangerous acts) forms in US, English, Canadian and Australian law.
Manson Family
The Manson Family was Charles Manson's California cult, whose members killed seven people including Sharon Tate in the August 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders, leading to 1971 convictions and long-running parole battles.
Manu Sharma
Manu Sharma (Siddharth Vashisht), son of Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma, convicted of murdering model Jessica Lall in Delhi in 1999; acquitted in 2006, convicted by the Delhi High Court, upheld by the Supreme Court in 2010, released in 2020.
Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel L. Quezon (Manuel Luis Quezon, 1878–1944), Filipino lawyer-statesman, first Commonwealth president, Senate President 1916–1935, secured the 1934 Tydings-McDuffie independence law; honored by Quezon City, Quezon Province, and Quezon Day.
Manuel Torres Félix
Manuel Torres Félix, also José Manuel Torres Félix, aliases El M-1, El 14, El Ondeado, was a Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant and hitman for Ismael El Mayo Zambada, killed by the Mexican Army in Culiacán on 13 October 2012.
Manya Surve
Manya Surve (Manohar Arjun Surve, 1944–1982) was a chemistry graduate from Kirti College who became a Mumbai underworld gangster and was shot dead on 11 January 1982 near Ambedkar College, Wadala, in the Mumbai police's first recorded encounter killing.
Mapp v. Ohio
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), decided June 19, 1961, is the Warren Court decision extending the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule to state criminal prosecutions via the Fourteenth Amendment, overruling Wolf v. Colorado after the warrantless Cleveland search of Dollree Mapp.
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison (1803, 5 U.S. 137) is the Supreme Court decision in which Chief Justice John Marshall held Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional, establishing federal judicial review.