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On September 9, the Food and Drug Administration issued letters to five companies and the trade organization involved in the manufacture and sale of electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. The warning letters from the FDA to the companies noted violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act including what the FDA says are “unsubstantiated claims and poor manufacturing practices.” The letter to the Electronic Cigarette Association warned that FDA intends to regulate electronic cigarettes....

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday that will prevent police in Ferguson, Missouri, from enforcing a “keep moving” rule on protesters. This unofficial rule, also known as the “five second rule,” has been used to keep protesters in Ferguson from standing still for too long. Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri, believes that this practice has been applied “haphazardly” and tended to increase tension among protesters, reports MSNBC....

The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled against a breakaway congregation of the Episcopal Church, Christ Church, deciding that the local church’s property is legally owned by the national organization. Christ Church was founded in 1733. The church co-founded the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia and joined the Episcopal Church in 1823. In 2007, the Episcopal Church affirmed its first openly gay bishop in New Hampshire. After this move, the congregation voted to sever its ties to the national organization....

Though you’d be a bit embarrassed if you accidentally fired a gun in a Walmart bathroom, you probably wouldn’t expect to be prosecuted. But this is not the case for Andrew Seals of Phoenix, Arizona. As Seals began to sit down on a Walmart toilet, his revolver fell out of its holster and hit the ground. It fired, and the bullet hit a wall, ricocheted off a light fixture, and then landed a few feet from a man standing at a urinal....

If you were in Congressman Kevin Yoder’s shoes you may be wondering is skinny dipping legal in the area where you live? The junior lawmaker from Kansas stirred up a bit of controversy when it was reported that he and several of his colleagues took a late night dip in the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Without a swimsuit, it was reported that Yoder decided to go au naturale and took a skinny dip near the religious site....

In a plot that seems straight out of a movie, Johnny Depp has been subpoenaed to testify in a murder case. Nancy Lekon is accused of killing a pedestrian in Los Angeles by running her down and dragging her for a mile. Lekon’s attorney wants Depp’s testimony to help prove her client is insane because Lekon claims she was in a relationship with the actor at the time of the alleged homicide, according to TMZ....

Last week, longtime Long Beach, California resident, Ray Webb, finally received justice. In October 2011, Mr. Webb was attacked by four officers, and hospitalized for two days. Mr. Webb, who’s now 62 years old, has a heart condition, which was exacerbated by the attack – particularly by the repeated use of a taser. He suffered a heart attack and has had vision problems since the attack. After filing a civil rights lawsuit against the police as a result of a shocking police brutality and excessive force incident, and taking the case all the way through trial, he was awarded $620,000 by a jury....

Reality star Kim Kardashian and Bret Lockett’s affair - or alleged affair - might be taking a legal turn. The Kim Kardashian/Bret Lockett scandal erupted after a story broke in In Touch, a weekly gossip magazine, that the two had an affair. Lockett is a NFL player for the New England Patriots. If the allegations of the affair of true, Kardashian would have been cheating on fiancé Kris Humphries, a basketball player for the New Jersey Nets, reports Reality TV World....

It’s a two-in-one day for Lindsay Lohan! LiLo just can’t stay out of legal trouble, can she? Today, Lohan’s in the news for tax evasion (again). Oh, and her lawyer is trying to find another creative argument to get her out of her lying-to-the-cops case from last year. But first, since it’s the right time of year to talk about taxes, let’s talk about state versus federal taxes. Yes, there are two authorities that many citizens have to pay taxes to....

For all those poker enthusiasts who want to cut back on their gambling habit: fear not. Poker is not gambling, at least not in New York. Not so fast though. The ruling from a federal court judge only applies to federal law. Gambling is still illegal in the state of New York and there’s a good chance that covers poker. The judge’s decision resulted from a case alleging that a man who ran an underground poker club had violated laws against gambling....

Police in Charlottesville, Virginia say they have found no evidence to substantiate a University of Virginia students’ claim that she was gang raped at a fraternity party in 2012. The accusations were published by Rolling Stone in November 2014, sparking nation-wide discussion and controversy. However, Police Chief Timothy Longo told a news conference that a five-month investigation did not uncover any evidence to “conclude to any substantive degree that an incident occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house or any other fraternity house, for that matter....

Police and law-enforcement officers can collect DNA samples from arrestees facing a “serious offense” without violating their Fourth Amendment rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. The 5-4 decision in Maryland v. King overturned a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling which threw out a rape conviction and life sentence for Alonzo Jay King based on evidence collected from a post-arrest DNA swab, reports Reuters. Is this case another erosion of arrestees’ Fourth Amendment rights?...

Rapper Flo Rida’s DUI arrest won’t be netting him any jail time. Flo Rida was busted in his 2008 Bugatti earlier this year in Miami Beach when he was spotted driving erratically. After police stopped his car, Flo Rida apparently felt the need to confess. He told officers he had a few drinks and couldn’t walk a straight line as part of the field sobriety test. He was also driving with a suspended license....

The police know when you check in to a hotel, motel, or Holiday Inn. Or, at least sometimes they do. A Motel 6 in Rhode Island has agreed to turn over daily guest lists to the police. This is one of many steps the motel chain is taking to curb the number of criminal incidents occurring at the hotel. The hotel does not directly alert guests during check-in that their names will be turned over to the police....

The immigration debate is certainly not confined to talking heads, shouting matches in the street, and uncomfortable discussions at family gatherings. High schoolers are also engaged in the discussion (although it often hardly looks like a discussion, even among adults). However, when one student expressed his views with a pro border wall t-shirt at school, he was suspended. While his free-speech lawsuit against the school is pending, he’s at least won a partial victory in court....

Are you eating fake honey? Probably, if tests conducted for Food Safety News are correct. Those tests found that approximately 75% of all honey sold in the United States includes no pollen whatsoever. According to the Food and Drug Administration, World Health Organization and the European Commission, honey without pollen isn’t real honey. Pollen is the only way to determine the honey’s origin, which is necessary to ensure safety. In the past, countries like India and China have dumped contaminated honey into the European and North American markets, reports Food Safety News....

Food is the stuff we put in us to sustain life. So it is particularly shocking when we discover that the things we’re eating to keep strong are actually making us sick. Unfortunately, this happens with foods we consider healthy as well as those that might be termed junk. Every week practically a food is recalled. Not all recalls are for food poisoning - sometimes there are issues with packaging, labeling, or a manufacturing defect – but poisoning does occur frequently....

Consumer concerns have clearly shifted since the new administration took office. Recently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s chairman, Elliot Kaye, stepped down, following other democratic leaders facing pressure from the Republican administration. Although it is unclear why exactly Mr. Kaye stepped down as chairman, he still retains his tenacity as well as his position as a commissioner and key decision maker. Kaye headed the commission during an exciting time where it finally was able to enforce significant fines against businesses that violate consumer protection laws....

A St. Louis woman has spent months trying to convince people that she’s alive. Now she has filed suit to say reports of her death are greatly exaggerated. In a peculiar federal lawsuit (attached below), Kimberly Haman has sued her local bank and a major credit reporting company to prove she is not among the deceased. She has been turned down for a credit card and twice denied refinancing on her mortgage due to her “deceased” status, the St....

The latest episode of “The Good Wife,” entitled “Runnin’ With the Devil,” was a solid one. For starters, someone actually addressed the elephant in the room – i.e., that the lawyers at Lockhart Garner are impeccably well-dressed for lawyers. And we met a new character: Charles Lester, played by the lovable Wallace Shawn (he played the geeky teacher in the 1990s movie “Clueless,” according to IMDb). In “Runnin’ With the Devil,” drug kingpin and notorious Lockhart Gardner client Lemond Bishop starts losing faith in his legal team and asks Alicia to bring his personal lawyer into the case....