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Back in 2014, Walgreens was hit with a permanent injunction against leaving expired price tags on its shelves. According to a new lawsuit from the Missouri attorney general’s office, the chain is back at its old tricks again. The latest lawsuit cites an investigation launched that found more than 1,300 expired tags in 49 stores across the state, some as old as 2013. Late to the Party Walgreens submitted to independent auditing of its Missouri stores, promising to remove stale tags within 12 hours of expiration....

California wine makers are toasting the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming arsenic levels are dangerously high and bottles are improperly labeled. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John Shepard Wiley dismissed a class-action lawsuit that named five of the state’s six largest wine producers, finding that their existing warnings comply with regulations. But the plaintiffs have already said they’ll appeal the ruling. The class action lawsuit was filed almost exactly a year ago against TWG, Treasury Wine Estates, Trinchero, Fetzer Vineyards, and Bronco....

Want a peepshow with your latte? Well, you better not head to a Yakima coffee shop, where half-naked servers have been taken off the menu. Washington State has been experiencing a boom in the bikini barista movement. Cafes have been popping up, hoping to draw in customers with young female servers in–you guessed it–bikinis. Responding to complaints by repressed citizens, Reuters reports that many cities have begun criminalizing indecent clothing in public–namely G-strings and anything see-through....

“Dance Moms” star Kelly Hyland had some of her legal claims cut by a judge in her suit against the show’s co-star, Abby Lee Miller. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hyland and her two daughters’ suit was trimmed of its defamation and infliction of emotional distress claims by a California state judge. The Hylands’ suit alleged that Miller had implied that Hyland was “an unfit mother and an alcoholic” and that the two girls were traumatized by Abby’s highly dramatic coaching style....

CBS will have to shell out $10.4 million in damages to the family of a security guard who was killed on the set of “NCIS” in 2011. Julio Villamariona, 52, was the subject of a wrongful death suit against CBS after he was struck and killed by a van carrying “NCIS” crewmembers. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the driver of the van had “a medical emergency” before losing control and plowing into Villamariona – a crash which led to his death....

We complained last week that none of show’s subplots were hitting home. That all changed this week. Alicia’s affair with Jason finally collided with her marriage to Peter. The first dominoes (and partners) began to fall in Diane’s plan to have women take over the firm. And the grand jury investigation into Peter is finally impacting someone we care about. Oh and drones – there were some drones, too. Here’s your legal primer on last night’s episode, “Unmanned....

You can almost always refuse to answer police questions, but depending on the circumstances it may produce somewhat different legal results. Here is a general breakdown of your legal options when questioned by the police in three common scenarios: The right to remain silent – your most popular Fifth Amendment-based Miranda right against self-incrimination – isn’t required to be read or spoken to you until you are in police custody and are being questioned....

After a Trump supporter was caught on tape sucker punching a protestor at Donald Trump’s rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina last week, the Cumberland Sheriff’s Office considered whether to charge the presidential candidate with inciting a riot. This was not the first physical altercation at a Trump rally, but it garnered national media attention perhaps because deputies, also from the Cumberland Sheriff’s Office, immediately arrested the black man who had been punched, and only later charged the white man who punched him....

A Virginia man is breathing a sigh of relief after the court ruled that his ex-fiance must return the $26,000 engagement ring for the marriage that will never happen. The court ruled that the ring was aptly characterized as a conditional gift, which meant that if the marriage didn’t take place, it would need to be returned. Since the marriage has been off for a few years now, the court ordered the ex-fiance to return the ring or pay the $26,000....

An ongoing investigation against the Bicycle Hotel and Casino in Bell Gardens, a city in Los Angeles, resulted in federal agents raiding the casino and closing the gambling floor this week. Since the warrant issued for the raid by a federal district court judge was filed under seal, there are only a few details about the investigation. However, this same casino was found, after a 1991 investigation, to have been built using drug money....

A student at Oak Park River Forest High School in Illinois was arrested earlier this week for allegedly making a Facebook sex list. The offensive list contained the names of approximately 50 female Oak Park River Forest High School students, and detailed their sexual behaviors, sexual characteristics and physical appearance. The list contained both explicit and derogatory language. The Facebook sex list gained the attention of school officials and students in January....

If you’ve never seen or heard of an ignition interlock device, it’s pretty much a breathalyzer for your car. You breathe into a sensor, and if your blood alcohol content is above a certain limit (or, in some cases, if alcohol is present at all) the car will not start. Some devices ask for breath samples while your driving, and others can alert law enforcement if you’ve violated a condition of probation or parole....

You’re not a lawyer and you don’t even play one on TV, but sometimes you pretend to be one to get things done. Is impersonating a lawyer a crime? Yes, most likely, although context is everything. You won’t end up in jail if you strongly insinuate that you are an attorney to influence a store clerk to serve you (and it’s unlikely to help anyway considering how little people care for lawyers)....

The notable side effect of consuming marijuana is getting high (duh), and many Americans wonder whether it’s illegal to simply be high in public. This is an even more pressing question in states where marijuana possession and use is legal – either for medicinal or recreational purposes – but public use is still heavily restricted. So is it legal to be high in public? Here’s what you need to know:...

We all get in the gift-giving mood around the holidays, and what better gift than that of a good high? Just kidding. Love is the greatest gift of all, followed closely by a really great bong. No, weed isn’t legal in all 50 states (yet), but drug paraphernalia isn’t actual drugs, so having it or giving it to someone else shouldn’t be against the law, right? So is it illegal to give the gift of drug paraphernalia this holiday season?...

Former “Dallas” star Larry Hagman is walking tall these days. The 79 year-old actor was recently awarded an $11 million judgment in a securities arbitration suit with Citigroup. A financial industry regulatory authority arbitration panel recently ruled that the financial giant must pay $10 million in punitive damages to charities selected by Hagman, $1.1 million in compensatory damages, and $440,000 in legal fees. The New York Daily News reports that Larry Hagman sued Smith Barney brokerage division (which was previously owned by Citigroup) for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, fraudulent misrepresentation, failure to supervise, and violations of state and federal laws relating to securities....

Despite marijuana’s distinct scent, Massachusetts’ highest judicial authority, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), has ruled that the smell of marijuana alone is not sufficient enough for an officer to order an occupant out of a vehicle. The reason? Possession of one ounce or less of marijuana is no longer a criminal offense in the state. In 2009, Benjamin Cruz was in a parked car when police noticed the smell of marijuana....

Mattel, Inc., the largest toy manufacturer in the world, and the attorneys general of 39 states have agreed on a $12M settlement over excessive levels of lead in children’s toys. The settlement agreement announced Monday relates to a consumer scare in 2007, when more than 2 million toys manufactured by Mattel, Inc. and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price, Inc. were recalled due to excessive levels of lead in the surface coating and sub-surface layers of the toys, according to a Press Release from the Massachusetts Attorney General, issued Monday....

Just because it happens on water, it doesn’t mean there is no punishment for boating under the influence. It may be included in the typical drunken driving laws, or it may be a separate statute altogether, but every state in this country (and Guam) limits just how much alcohol a person can have before it becomes illegal to steer a boat. Officers are even tasked with the authority to “pull over” boaters and conduct in-the-water checkpoints....

Newly released police video shows country superstar Randy Travis’ slurred reaction to his public-intoxication arrest. “Really? Are you kidding me?” Randy Travis says in the video taken by a police cruiser’s dashboard camera and obtained by Dallas-Ft. Worth’s KXAS-TV. “No sir,” a Sanger, Texas, police officer responds. “Maybe once we get to jail, we can figure out who … get some more information on you, who you are.” “Are you kidding me?...