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A new Pamela Anderson TV ad has been banned in Britain for being “sexist and degrading to women,” reports the New York Daily News. Watchdog group the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) pulled the “Baywatch” celebrity’s television spot for Australian web-hosting service Crazy Domains, finding the ad was “likely to cause serious offense to some viewers.” But that’s in the UK. Could the same thing happen in America? The problem was that he “viewed his female colleagues as sexual objects to be lusted after,” said the UK’s ASA....

A proposed San Francisco law could make a major positive impact on the environment, or it could be yet another example of nanny-state government. It all depends on which side of the “bottled water ban” you fall on. At an environment commission committee meeting Monday, city officials will debate whether events at San Francisco parks, festivals and streets could become bottled water free. Instead, events could have reusable bottles which could be given away or sold....

Normally, when we think of negligence, we think of traffic accidents and personal injury cases. Legally speaking, negligence is when carelessness results in an injury to a person or property. Such cases are normally dealt with by civil lawsuits for monetary damages to compensate the injured party, although sometimes damages are awarded to punish the negligent party. But what happens when a person’s actions aren’t merely careless, but reckless? And what happens when it’s not a simple fender bender, but a fatal car crash?...

When a Colorado woman spotted her stolen bike on Craigslist, she felt there was only one way to handle the situation. She stole her bike back. Kathryn Lucas, 25, left her bike – without a lock – outside a sports bar in Boulder, Colo., where she met some friends to watch a football game. By the end of the night, her bike was gone. Lucas went online to file a police report....

A “Sister Wives” lawsuit is expected to be filed today by the family featured on the hit TLC reality show. The polygamy lawsuit is challenging the Utah law that makes polygamy a crime. Kody Brown is the head of the family. He has four wives and 16 children and stepchildren. The Browns are members of the Apostolic United Brethren Church, which is a fundamentalist offshoot of the Mormon Church. The Mormon Church gave up polygamy in the 1890s when Utah sought statehood, reports The New York Times....

Copyright holders of the movie “Dallas Buyers Club” are suing 31 torrent users who’ve illegally shared the movie online. The torrent downloaders are accused of unlawfully distributing the movie without the copyright owners’ permission, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The owners worry with even just one unlawful copy floating out there, it could be distributed to a “limitless number of people.” So who are these mysterious alleged freeloaders? The main claim in the “Dallas Buyers Club” lawsuit is that the torrent users infringed the copyright owners’ exclusive rights to the film, including distribution and reproduction of the film....

With a wink and a hat tip to a recent discussion on our FindLaw Answers DUI & DWI Forum, it may be helpful to know that DUI charges don’t always stick. For a variety of reasons particular to each drunken or drugged driving arrest, there may be legal routes available to get DUI charges dismissed. Here are five ways that can potentially happen: A traffic stop made without probable cause is almost never legal....

Ariel Castro has been formally charged in the rape and kidnapping of three women allegedly held captive in his Cleveland home for years. As grim details emerge about the victims’ harrowing tales of captivity, Castro’s journey in the criminal justice system is only beginning. Handcuffed and clad in a dark blue jumpsuit, the 52-year-old former school bus driver was arraigned on kidnapping and rape charges Thursday, USA Today reports. With Ariel Castro charged, you might be wondering what an arraignment actually entails....

A ruling on a pair of cases out of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affirmed a private individual’s right to record police performing their duties in public. The cases of Amanda Geraci and Richard Fields both involve law enforcement officers retaliating against them for recording officers performing their duties in public. While the federal district court handling these two cases found that neither Geraci, nor Fields, were protected by the First Amendment, the Third Circuit was quick to correct the lower court on their mistaken interpretation....

The Council of the District of Columbia has given its unanimous approval to new regulations on the possession of handguns in homes. The new legislation comes less than a month after a D.C. ban on handguns was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court as part of a landmark ruling on the scope of the Second Amendment. According to the Washington Post, under the new regulations handguns must be unloaded, disassembled or trigger-locked while in the home (except where a “threat of immediate harm to a person” exists), gun owners must undergo written and eye exams, and police officers will be allowed to conduct ballistics tests on the weapons to make sure they have not been used in the commission of a crime....

You can do a lot to protect your privacy on the Internet. You can block cookies, create elaborate passwords, and only do business with companies with strong privacy policies. But even if you do these things and twenty others, the fate of your information comes down to one thing and one thing only: persistence. Though it’s not 100% clear whether or not tricking IE violates consumer protection or criminal laws, it is important to note that the practice is industry-wide....

Drunk driving has the breathalyzer and soon distracted driving may have the textalyzer, a device that allows police to measure phone use of those involved in car accidents. The device has not been perfected and is only now being considered by New York lawmakers. The textalyzer will help police determine whether to proceed with a criminal case after analysis of pre-accident phone use. The device’s creation was inspired by 19-year-old Evan Lieberman who died in a car crash with a distracted driver, reports the American Bar Association Journal....

Following up on September’s Automated Vehicles Policy, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued guidance for automakers on cybersecurity. As vehicles are becoming more technologically advanced, the potential for dangerous cyber-attacks increase. Since automakers have been connecting vehicles to the internet through cellular networks, and including sophisticated computers capable of controlling every feature on a car, the NHTSA believed that cyber-security guidance was necessary to protect consumers and the public from vehicle cyber attacks....

While the First Amendment provides the freedom to associate, people often wonder about whether gang affiliation is a crime or considered free association. Generally, being a member of a gang is not in and of itself illegal; however, it is likely to lead to illegal activity which is generally punished more harshly if there is a gang affiliation. This is because many states define gangs as groups that include a purpose of committing crimes or illegal acts....

An “error” by Netflix is limiting the number of video streams some of its members can send to their computers, tablets and smartphones, the company admitted today in a statement. A number of the entertainment service’s members discovered over the Labor Day weekend that they could stream content from Netflix to only one device at a time. So if Dad was watching an action movie on his computer, Mom wouldn’t be able to watch a romantic flick streamed to the Roku box in the living room....

The California Supreme Court gave a boost to employees earlier this week, ruling 6-to-1 that a 2005 Los Angeles grocery worker law is not preempted by state law, federal labor code, or the Equal Protection Clause. With worker retention ordinances, which are designed to prevent new business owners from laying off existing employees, popping up across the country in a variety of industries, one can only expect this decision to encourage more California cities to get in on the trend....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the recall of 143 million pounds of beef produced by a California slaughterhouse. U.S. officials are calling it the largest beef recall in U.S. history. Government investigation revealed that certain cattle at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino, California were ill, disabled, or “nonambulatory” before being slaughtered, in violation of Food Safety Inspection Service regulations. The recall applies to all Hallmark/Westland raw and frozen beef products produced since February 1, 2006....

A 20-year-old New York man was arrested for allegedly making a “terroristic threat” on Facebook after the George Zimmerman verdict. Remel Newson, a Queens resident, posted an angry Facebook message full of misspellings about how blacks cannot get justice, including the phrase “let’s kill cops nd neighborhood watcher,” reports The Huffington Post. Angry posts on Facebook are nothing new, but does this sort of message rise to the level of a terroristic threat?...

A University of Maryland, College Park student was arrested after allegedly posting online threats about a school “shooting rampage,” police said. Alexander Song, 19, of Fulton, Md., was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after his arrest Sunday morning – just hours before the alleged school shooting was supposedly set to take place, The Baltimore Sun reports. “Stay away from the Mall tomorrow [Sunday] at 1:30,” Song wrote on a website, according to police....

In a massive meat recall, a company in Petaluma, California is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products. According to federal officials, the company processed diseased and unhealthy animals without adequate inspection. Without a full inspection, the products are unfit for human consumption. But how do you know if you’ve been affected? And if so, how do you know if you need a lawyer? Recall Details Eighteen Rancho Feeding Corp....