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There are many varieties of disorderly conduct charges. Usually these types of charges involve conduct that annoys the public, like loudly yelling in a residential area while stumbling home drunk, fighting with hallucinations while in public, peeing on a public sidewalk, doing donuts in a parking lot, fighting actual people, continually punching the air while advising passerbyers to not walk into your punches, just being overly loud in public, playing music loud during the night, and nearly anything else that goes beyond just annoying or embarrassing....

Looks like Kanye West may have caught a break. A court commissioner recently dismissed criminal charges against West and his road manager dating back to an altercation with paparazzi at the Los Angeles airport. Misdemeanor charges were filed against the rapper, notorious for temper tantrums, and against his manager after they were arrested on Sept. 11, 2008 for a scuffle with two photographers. West also made headlines earlier year for interrupting Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech....

Makers of toys and cribs now have more time to comply with new laws regulating lead testing and certification of their products. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted 4 to 1 to extend the stay of enforcement for testing and certification of lead content in children’s products until December 31, 2011, says a CPSC news release. In 2007, millions of toys and children’s products, mostly from China, were pulled from store shelves because they contained lead paint which is known to cause lead poisoning, among other hazards....

Several national publishers are being sued for violating California’s “shine the light law.” The companies in question run high-traffic websites such as RunnersWorld.com and Wired.com. The privacy law regulates the sale of customer data. The law mandates that businesses that deal with California residents need to make certain information available. Specifically, they need to tell customers ways to opt out of information sharing. Either that or they need to provide an explanation of how customer data was used....

Talk about first-world problems. Rapper Missy Elliot sued a Westmont, Illinois Lamborghini dealer for delivery of her car. Elliot says she worked out a deal with the car dealership to buy a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador for $375,000. As part of the deal, Elliot agreed to put down a $30,000 down payment as well as trading in her 2005 Bentley for $85,000. But as the Aventador’s market value apparently has risen far above the original asking price of $375,000, Fox Valley Motor Cars has now refused to deliver Missy Elliot’s Lambroghini, reports the Chicago Sun-Times....

Last month, researchers from the Electoral Integrity Project scored North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity at 58/100, placing it alongside the likes of Cuba, Indonesia, and Sierra Leone in terms of fostering free and fair and democratic elections. Not exactly the best of company. So bad, in fact, that those in charge of the study didn’t consider our twelfth state a democracy. While North Carolina was lacking in terms of legal framework and voter registration, the main points of contention were its voting district boundaries....

¡Aviso! ¡Peligro! ¡Advertencia! If you live in the United States, chances are you’ve seen these Spanish warnings posted before. But guess what? Manufacturers and businesses may be posting them out of the goodness of their hearts and not any legal requirement. A District Court judge in Miami has ruled that manufacturers are not required to translate warning labels into other languages except in very narrow instances. While the case deals with Spanish warnings, it applies to all languages....

Justice may be blind. But prosecutors are not. This week, the Supreme Court is considering racial bias in jury selection in Foster v. Chatman. The case is being called “an egregious example” of a rampant problem, according to a former prosecutor writing in the New York Times. Prosecutors continue to exclude black jurors from juries almost 40 years after a landmark case, Batson v. Kentucky, made clear that the practice is illegal....

Three convicted murderers on death row have had their punishments commuted to life in prison without parole under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act. The three cases mark the second time the Act has been used to convert death sentences to life in prison, and the first time it’s happened under the newly amended Act, The New York Times reports. The original law passed in 2009 and was amended earlier this year....

Are Real Housewives star Bethenny Frankel’s Skinnygirl Margaritas all-natural? Not according to a recently-filed Skinnygirl Margarita lawsuit. Reneta Bonar is the named plaintiff in the suit. She claims that Skinnygirl Margaritas are falsely advertised as being “all-natural.” Apparently the alcoholic beverage contains a small amount of sodium benzoate, a preservative, according to TMZ. The lawsuit also comes on the heels of Whole Foods’ decision not to reorder Frankel’s “guilt-free” margaritas....

Spring breakers dealing with air travel will want to know their rights at the airport. Whether it’s going through airport security or knowing how to deal with airlines if your flight is delayed or cancelled, travelers should be aware of the limitations of the law. So here’s what you should know regarding your rights at the airport: Airport Security Before you can hop on a plane, you need to go through a TSA security check....

An alleged teen drug “czar” will likely spend three years in juvenile detention after he pleaded guilty to heading up a $3 million pot ring. His alleged adult accomplices, however, could face harsher penalties. Tyler Pagenstecher, 17, of Mason, Ohio, entered guilty pleas in juvenile court to two counts of felony drug trafficking, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The high-school senior’s extracurricular activities allegedly involved cultivating marijuana at grow houses in several Cincinnati suburbs, and selling the pot to rich high-school students near his home, investigators said....

Does the Verizon iPhone have you planning to leave AT&T? Pre-orders for the mega-hyped Verizon iPhone begin this Thursday. AT&T’s exclusive partnership is finally coming to an end; the iPhone has been tied to an AT&T contract since 2007. If you’re going to make the switch, here are some good things to know: Verizon is allowing iPhone 4 buyers to lock into Verizon data plan at $30 per month plan for unlimited data, with a two-year contract, USA Today reports....

“The Good Wife” is back, and so is our coverage. What does this new season have in store for our readers? If the Sixth Season premiere, “The Line,” is any indication, “The Good Wife” is going to start looking a lot more like “Law and Order” and less like “Scandal.” Don’t know what that means? Read our recap: We open where “A Weird Year” left us, with Eli asking Alicia to run for State’s Attorney....

You didn’t really hit that other car – it was more a love tap. No need to get the authorities involved, right? Well, your car might not agree. New car technology can tell us where we are, where to go, and even where other cars are. And it can tell the cops if you’ve been involved in an accident. So you might want to think twice before leaving the scene of an accident....

A recent case has people wondering if, how, and when police officers can use their property, including their house, to stage law enforcement operations. A Henderson, NV family claimed officers violated the Third Amendment ("[n]o Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner") by occupying their homes to investigate a domestic dispute at a neighbor’s house. A federal court found that, while officers may have committed some other constitutional violations, the amendment didn’t apply because the officers were not soldiers....

Did pop/R&B singer Christina Milian receive a dream divorce settlement? Milian’s soon to be ex-husband, producer The Dream, might say no. But some news sources say yes, to the sweet tune of $4 million in a lump sum, a number disputed by Milian herself. What might be the long term outcome of this short marriage? Milian and The Dream were married in September 2009, according to HipHopWired. The couple will be filing the settlement agreement with a judge in Fulton, Georgia in the near future....

Divorce bells (or whatever the opposite of wedding bells are) are ringing for former lovebirds Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Moore released a statement on Thursday announcing the demise of their marriage. This comes after months of speculation that Kutcher cheated on his wife. In a released statement, Moore says that there are “certain values and vows” that she holds dear, and that she’s chosen to “move forward” with her life....

Reporting crime is certainly a public service, but is there any legal obligation for you to report a crime if you see one? You may recall the series finale of “Seinfeld,” in which the four New Yorkers were arrested in Massachusetts under a fictional law that made it an arrestable offense not to rescue someone whom they see being carjacked. And while that episode devolved into a comical courtroom scene, many viewers may have been left wondering if they could be arrested for doing the same....

Welcome to FindLaw’s DUI Law series. If you have been charged with a DUI, know someone who has, or just want to know about the law and how to protect your rights during a DUI stop, please come back each week for more information. Want to hear something truly scary? You had a few drinks, are on your way home, and there are police lights on the road up ahead. Do you look too drunk to drive?...