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Maurene Comey
Maurene Comey, SDNY assistant U.S. attorney (2015-2025) in the Epstein, Maxwell, and Combs cases, fired July 16, 2025 with Article II as sole stated reason; her lawsuit against the Justice Department may proceed in federal court.
Maurice Audin affair
The Maurice Audin affair is the 1957 disappearance of Maurice Audin, a French mathematician at the University of Algiers arrested by French paratroopers during the Battle of Algiers.
Maurice Boucher
Maurice "Mom" Boucher (1953–2022) led the Hells Angels' Nomads chapter in Quebec, ordered the 1997 murders of prison guards Diane Lavigne and Pierre Rondeau during the biker war, was convicted in 2002, and died of throat cancer in prison.
Maury Travis
Maury Troy Travis (born 1965, died June 10, 2002) was an American suspected serial killer of 12-20 women around St. Louis, caught via an Expedia.com map he mailed to a newspaper, which was traced through Microsoft and WorldCom logs to his IP address; he hanged himself in jail three days after arrest, never tried.
Max Clifford
Max Clifford (Frank Maxwell Clifford, 1943-2017), British celebrity publicist and founder of Max Clifford Associates, king of tabloid kiss-and-tell PR; convicted in 2014 of eight counts of indecent assault and jailed for eight years.
Max Huber (statesman)
Max Huber (1874–1960) was a Swiss lawyer and judge who led the International Committee of the Red Cross from 1928 to 1944, directing its wartime relief operations.
Max Kennedy
Max Kennedy (Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, born 1965) is an American lawyer and author, ninth child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy; edited Make Gentle the Life of This World, wrote Danger's Hour, and opposed brother RFK Jr.'s 2024 campaign.
Max Mermelstein
Max Mermelstein, Brooklyn-born engineer and Medellin cartel's Miami distributor 1978-1985, claimed 56 tons of cocaine and $300 million moved; became federal witness and wrote The Man Who Made It Snow (1990).
Max O. Cogburn, Jr.
Max O. Cogburn, Jr., also known as Max Oliver Cogburn, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of North Carolina since 2011.
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht) is a Heidelberg research institute of the Max Planck Society, founded in Berlin in 1924, re-established in Heidelberg in 1949, covering public international law, EU law, human rights, and comparative public law.
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law is a criminology and criminal law research institute of the Max Planck Society in Freiburg, Germany.
Maxims of equity
Maxims of equity: short pithy statements (equity follows the law; clean hands; equity acts in personam) of principles running through Chancery equity, guiding principles rather than binding rules, first collected in 1728 and contested today.
Maxine M. Chesney
Maxine M. Chesney is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California, appointed by President Bill Clinton.
Maya Dolas
Maya Dolas, born Mahindra Dolas, was an Indian underworld gangster from Mumbai who worked for Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company and died in the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout.
Maya Forstater
Maya Forstater, British researcher whose gender-critical belief case Forstater v CGD Europe [2022] ICR 1 established such beliefs as protected philosophical beliefs under the UK Equality Act 2010.
Maya Harris
Maya Lakshmi Harris (born 1967) is an American lawyer and policy advocate, sister of Kamala Harris, former ACLU of Northern California executive director, Ford Foundation vice president, and senior policy adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley (born 1964, Syracuse, New York) is an American civil rights attorney, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, first Black woman counsel to a NYC mayor, CCRB chair, and 2021 mayoral candidate.
McCollum v. Board of Education
1948 U.S. Supreme Court case, Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District No. 71, Champaign County, striking down 8 to 1 on-campus released time religious instruction as a First Amendment establishment of religion.
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice John Marshall upholding Congress's implied power to charter the Second Bank under the Necessary and Proper Clause and barring state taxation of federal instruments.
McDonald v. City of Chicago
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), Supreme Court case extending the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms to state and local governments via Fourteenth Amendment Due Process incorporation, 5-4, opinion by Alito.
McGirt v. Oklahoma
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) is the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation was never disestablished, making eastern Oklahoma Indian country and barring state prosecution of Indians for major crimes there.
McKenzie friend
McKenzie friend, from McKenzie v McKenzie (1970), is a layperson assisting a litigant in person in England and Wales courts with notes, papers, and quiet advice; no rights of audience, unregulated, fee-charging form grew after LASPO legal aid cuts.
McLibel case
McLibel case: McDonald's libel action against Helen Steel and David Morris over a 1986 London Greenpeace leaflet; 313-day trial, longest in English legal history; 2005 ECHR judgment found UK violated their fair-trial and expression rights.
McMahon Line
The McMahon Line is the 890-km India-Tibet boundary drawn by Sir Henry McMahon at the 1914 Simla Convention, defined in notes exchanged with Lonchen Shatra; initialled 27 April and 3 July 1914 but never accepted by China, which claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet.
McMartin preschool trial
McMartin preschool trial (1983-1990), Manhattan Beach, California child sexual abuse prosecution; longest, costliest US criminal trial, about $15 million; seven defendants, 115 counts, zero convictions; Buckeys acquitted in 1990; drove reform of child forensic interviewing.
McStay family murders
McStay family murders: Joseph, Summer, Gianni, and Joseph Jr. McStay, missing from Fallbrook, California, since February 4, 2010; remains found in Mojave Desert shallow graves in 2013; business partner Chase Merritt convicted 2019, sentenced to death.
Md. Asaduzzaman (মোঃ আসাদুজ্জামান) (lawyer)
Md. Asaduzzaman (মোঃ আসাদুজ্জামান), Bangladeshi lawyer and BNP politician, 17th Attorney General (Aug 2024–Dec 2025), now Law Minister and MP for Jhenaidah-1; distinct from ACC chief AKM Asaduzzaman.
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story is a 2011 American documentary directed by Daniel Birman, who filmed Cyntoia Brown for nearly six years through her trial, conviction, and life sentence.
Mean world syndrome
Mean world syndrome, George Gerbner's cultivation-theory concept (also scary world syndrome): heavy media-violence exposure breeds exaggerated crime fear and distrust. Pooled effect near .10; contested under controls; extended to social media.
Means test
A means test is an eligibility-determination method that measures a household's income and assets against program-specific limits, governing welfare, bankruptcy relief, healthcare coverage, housing subsidies, and legal aid.