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Mongrel Mob
The Mongrel Mob, also known as the Mighty Mongrel Mob, is a New Zealand street gang formed in the late 1960s and known for its red colors and bulldog emblem.
Monica R. Almadani
Monica R. Almadani, also known as Monica Ramirez Almadani, is an American judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California since 2023.
Monism and dualism in international law
Monism and dualism in international law: two theories of how international and domestic law relate. Monism (Kelsen) unifies them with international supremacy; dualism (Triepel) separates them, requiring domestic transposition; both now serve mainly as analytical tools.
Monkey selfie copyright dispute
Monkey selfie copyright dispute: 2011 photos taken by Celebes crested macaques with David Slater's camera in Sulawesi, Indonesia; Wikimedia deemed them public domain and PETA's Naruto v. Slater suit failed.
Monster of Florence
Monster of Florence (Il Mostro di Firenze): unidentified killer of eight double murders, 16 victims, near Florence 1968–1985, using a Beretta .22 series 70 with Winchester H cartridges. Pacciani and the Compagni di Merende were convicted; key verdicts fell; the case remains unsolved.
Monti L. Belot
Monti L. Belot, born 1943, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the District of Kansas, nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Montie Rissell
Montie Ralph Rissell, American serial killer who raped and murdered five women in Alexandria and Fairfax County, Virginia, 1976-77; five life sentences; FBI profiling subject; Mindhunter figure.
MONUC/MONUSCO mandate renewals
The MONUC/MONUSCO mandate renewals are the sequence of UN Security Council resolutions that established, renamed, and drew down the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1999 and the 2020s.
Moondyne Joe
Moondyne Joe, also known as Joseph Bolitho Johns, was a Western Australian convict and bushranger. He was famous for his repeated, audacious escapes from custody in the 1860s.
Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey (1845–1929), Boston constitutional lawyer, first NAACP president (1910–1929) and Anti-Imperialist League leader; argued Guinn v. United States, Buchanan v. Warley, and Moore v. Dempsey.
Moors murders
Moors murders: 1963-1965 child murders by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley of five victims, including Keith Bennett, buried on Saddleworth Moor; convictions at Chester Assizes 1966; Bennett's body never found, investigation open.
Moot court
Moot court, or mooting, is a simulated appellate court exercise in which law students brief and argue a hypothetical case before judges. Distinguished from mock trial by its appellate focus; major competitions include the ABA NAAC, Jessup, and the John H. Jackson WTO moot.
Moral panic
Moral panic: a sociological concept from Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972) describing exaggerated public fear of a folk devil threat, with stages, models, critiques, and social media extensions.
Moral turpitude
Moral turpitude is a legal term for base, vile, or depraved conduct; a 'crime involving moral turpitude' (CIMT) triggers US deportation, inadmissibility, and attorney discipline, despite having no statutory definition.
Moret Law
The Moret Law (Ley Moret) was a Spanish law of 1870 that began abolishing slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico by freeing children of enslaved mothers.
Morgan Christen
Morgan Christen (born 1961) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2012.
Morgenthau Plan
The Morgenthau Plan, also called the Program to Prevent Germany from Starting World War III, was Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s 1944 scheme to deindustrialize, pastoralize, and partition Germany; approved in part at Quebec, then dropped.
Moriarty Tribunal
Moriarty Tribunal: Irish tribunal of inquiry (1997) into payments to politicians, chaired by Justice Michael Moriarty. Investigated Charles Haughey's payments and Michael Lowry's role in the 1995 mobile phone licence for Denis O'Brien's Esat Digifone; final report 2011, cost over €78m.
Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship
The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship (Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1786) between the United States and Sultan Mohammed III of Morocco: sealed June 23, 1786, ratified July 18, 1787, renewed 1836, the longest unbroken U.S. treaty relationship.
Moroccan–Spanish Treaty of 1767
The Moroccan–Spanish Treaty of 1767 was a peace and commerce treaty between Sultan Muhammad ben Abdallah and King Charles III of Spain, signed 28 May 1767.
Morocco–Congo Treaty
The Morocco–Congo Treaty, or Franco-German Convention of 4 November 1911, ended the Agadir Crisis: Germany accepted French rule in Morocco for land in the French Congo.
Morris Dees
Morris Dees (born 1936) is an Alabama lawyer who co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center with Joe Levin in 1971 and pioneered hate-group liability lawsuits, including the $7 million verdict that bankrupted the United Klans of America; he was fired by the SPLC in March 2019.
Morris S. Arnold
Morris S. Arnold, born 1941, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2006.
Morrison Waite
Morrison Remick Waite (1816-1888), seventh Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-1888), a Toledo, Ohio lawyer nominated by Grant after Chase's death; wrote Minor v. Happersett, Cruikshank, and Reynolds.
Morrissey v. Brewer
Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court parole revocation due process case: requires a preliminary probable-cause hearing and a final revocation hearing with six minimum procedural safeguards, extended to probationers by Gagnon v. Scarpelli.
Mortgage law
Mortgage law governs using an interest in land as loan security, covering title versus lien theories, the equity of redemption, deeds of trust, and judicial versus nonjudicial foreclosure, with state-varying redemption periods and federal CFPB servicing rules.
Mortgage loan
Mortgage loan: a loan secured by real property, also called a home loan or housing loan. Borrower pledges the house as collateral; key choices are conventional versus FHA/VA/USDA programs, 15- or 30-year terms, and fixed versus adjustable rates.
MOSAIC threat assessment systems
MOSAIC threat assessment systems are computer-assisted violence risk assessment methods by Gavin de Becker & Associates (Method for Objectively Selecting Areas of Inquiry-Consistently), covering domestic violence, workplace, school, public figure, and judicial threats; DV-MOSAIC showed significant but unimpressive predictive associations in the 2005 NIJ validation study.
Moses Sithole
Moses Sithole (born 1964), the ABC Killer, is a South African serial killer and rapist who murdered women in Atteridgeville, Boksburg and Cleveland; convicted in 1997 of 38 murders, 40 rapes and 6 robberies, sentenced to 2,410 years.
Mossack Fonseca
Mossack Fonseca was a Panamanian law firm founded in 1986 by Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, specializing in offshore shell company incorporation. Its leaked files (11.5 million documents) became the 2016 Panama Papers; the firm closed in 2018, and its founders were acquitted in Panama in 2024.