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Digital Operational Resilience Act
Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, is an EU financial-sector ICT resilience law, applicable 17 January 2025, covering ICT risk, incident reporting, testing, and third-party oversight.
Dingo ate my baby
Catchphrase from the 1980 death of Azaria Chamberlain, taken by a dingo at Uluru; her mother Lindy was wrongly convicted of murder in 1982 and exonerated by 2012.
Diogo Alves
Diogo Alves (1810–1841), nicknamed O Pancada, the "Aqueduct Killer" of Lisbon's Águas Livres Aqueduct; Galician-born criminal hanged for the 1839 Andrade house murders, with his preserved head at the University of Lisbon.
Dionisio Anzilotti
Dionisio Anzilotti (1867–1950) was an Italian jurist, a judge and President of the Permanent Court of International Justice and a founder of legal positivism in international law.
Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal (1910–1997), ninth President of the Philippines 1961–1965 and vice president 1957–1961; enacted the 1963 Agricultural Land Reform Code, decontrolled foreign exchange in 1962, filed the Sabah claim, and proposed MAPHILINDO.
Dipak Misra
Dipak Misra (दीपक मिश्रा; born 1953) is an Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 2017 to 2018, after leading the Patna and Delhi High Courts.
Diploma Andreanum
The Diploma Andreanum, German Goldener Freibrief, is a 1224 charter by which King Andrew II of Hungary granted collective rights and autonomy to the German settlers of southern Transylvania, the Transylvanian Saxons.
Diplomatic bag
Diplomatic bag (diplomatic pouch): sealed, visibly marked container protected by VCDR Article 27; cannot be opened or detained, carries only official-use items; distinct from consular bags and the 1989 unadopted ILC draft articles.
Diplomatic courier
Diplomatic courier: credentialed state agent carrying diplomatic bags and classified material, protected by VCDR Article 27 (1961); U.S. Diplomatic Courier Service founded 1918, ILC draft articles 1989.
Diplomatic protection
Diplomatic protection: a State's discretionary espousal of an international claim on behalf of its injured national after exhaustion of local remedies; codified in the ILC's 2006 Draft Articles, governed by nationality of claims rules, Nottebohm's genuine link, and still without a convention.
Diplomatic recognition
Diplomatic recognition: the unilateral act by which a state acknowledges another state or government's legal status; defined by constitutive versus declaratory theories, Montevideo Convention criteria, and effects on diplomatic relations, treaties, and UN membership.
Direct examination
Direct examination is the initial questioning of a witness at trial by the party that called the witness, conducted without leading questions and generally followed by cross-examination.
Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Directive (EU) 2019/790, the EU Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSM Directive), adopted 17 April 2019: press publishers' right (Article 15), platform liability (Article 17), TDM exceptions, upheld by CJEU C-401/19.
Directive Principles
Directive Principles of State Policy are non-justiciable welfare directives in Part IV, Articles 36-51, of India's Constitution, drawn from the 1937 Irish Constitution, implemented through welfare legislation and case law such as Minerva Mills.
Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales)
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP): head of the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales, created by the 1879 Act, reconstituted under the 1985 Act; appointed by the Attorney General, issues the Code for Crown Prosecutors; current holder Stephen Parkinson since 2023.
Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation
Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI): statutory head of India's federal investigating agency under the DSPE Act, 1946, appointed on the recommendation of a PM, Leader of the Opposition, and Chief Justice of India committee with a two-year minimum tenure.
Dirty John
Dirty John is a six-part true-crime podcast reported and hosted by Los Angeles Times journalist Christopher Goffard and released with Wondery in October 2017, examining the con man John Meehan.
Dirty protest
The dirty protest, also called the No Wash Protest, was a 1978–1981 Irish republican prison resistance at Long Kesh/Maze, Northern Ireland, and at Armagh: prisoners refused to wash or slop out and smeared excrement on cell walls to reject criminalization, escalating to the hunger strikes.
Disappearance and killing of Emily Pike
Emily Pike was a 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl who disappeared from a Mesa, Arizona group home on January 27, 2025; her dismembered remains were found February 14, 2025 near Globe. The homicide remains unsolved.
Disappearance and murder of Gannon Stauch
Gannon Stauch was an 11-year-old Colorado boy reported missing January 27, 2020 and found dead in Florida; stepmother Letecia Stauch was convicted of his murder in 2023, but the conviction was reversed in April 2026 over a juror conflict, with a state Supreme Court appeal pending.
Disappearance of Abigail Blagg
Abigail "Abby" Jo Blagg, a 6-year-old from Grand Junction, Colorado, vanished with her mother Jennifer on November 12, 2001. Jennifer's body was found in a landfill; father Michael Blagg was twice convicted of her murder, but Abby has never been found and no one has been charged in her disappearance.
Disappearance of Amanda Campbell
The disappearance of Amanda Campbell concerns a four-year-old American girl who vanished while riding her bicycle in Fairfield, California, on December 27, 1991; she has never been located.
Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley
Amy Lynn Bradley, born 1974, vanished March 24, 1998 from Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas between Aruba and Curaçao. Unsolved FBI case; $100,000 reward; subject of Netflix's Amy Bradley Is Missing.
Disappearance of Andrew Gosden
The disappearance of Andrew Gosden concerns a 14-year-old from Doncaster who vanished in September 2007 after traveling alone by train to London King's Cross, where CCTV last recorded him.
Disappearance of Ann Marie Burr
Disappearance of Ann Marie Burr: eight-year-old Tacoma, Washington girl who vanished from her bedroom on August 31, 1961; never found, case still open, long speculated but unproven as Ted Bundy's first victim.
Disappearance of Asami Chida (千田麻未)
Asami Chida (千田麻未), also called the Muroran girls' high school disappearance case, a 16-year-old Muroran Sakae High School student who vanished March 6, 2001 in Hokkaido after boarding a bus to her bakery job; unsolved, with PHS data showing a 1 km move in four minutes.
Disappearance of Asha Degree
Asha Jaquilla Degree, born 1990, vanished at age 9 from Shelby, North Carolina, on February 14, 2000; last seen walking N.C. Highway 18 at 4 a.m.; her buried book bag was found in Burke County in 2001; investigators in 2024 said they believe she was killed.
Disappearance of Brian Shaffer
Brian Shaffer disappearance: Ohio State medical student, 27, vanished April 1, 2006, after entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar in Columbus; cameras never recorded him leaving, and the case remains open.
Disappearance of Brianna Maitland
Unsolved 2004 disappearance of Brianna Maitland, 17, last seen leaving the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont; her 1985 Oldsmobile 88 was found backed into an abandoned barn nearby, DNA evidence was identified via genetic genealogy, and a $40,000 FBI reward stands.
Disappearance of Bryce Laspisa
Bryce David Laspisa, born 1994, a Sierra College student, vanished August 30, 2013 near Castaic Lake, California, after his Toyota Highlander was found overturned with his belongings inside; the case remains open and unsolved.