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A judge in Maine has reversed a temporary in-home quarantine order for a nurse who treated Ebola victims in West Africa. The judge’s new order, issued Friday, removes many of the restrictions initially placed on the nurse’s movement. Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere had issued a temporary order Thursday, requiring nurse Kaci Hickox to submit to in-home monitoring and be subject to restrictions on her movement. The order was in response to a petition filed by the state, reports the Portland Press Herald....

Hollywood’s latest Mad Max (er, Mel) case has taken one step closer to the Thunderdome. It was reported on August 25 that the Mel Gibson domestic violence case file has finally been turned over to the Los Angeles District Attorney for further action. The ongoing case involves actor Mel Gibson and the mother of his latest child, Oksana Grigorieva. As discussed in prior posts, Grigorieva has accused Gibson of domestic violence and assault, with pictures of injuries to her mouth leaked onto the internet....

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating complaints about the “Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour” concert special aired by NBC last month. The FCC has so far reported receiving four complaints about the special, which featured a toned-down version of the controversial singer’s typical stage show, reports Rolling Stone. The show nonetheless included enough sexual and drug-related imagery to draw complaints from viewers that the show violated the Commission’s indecency guidelines. What got viewers so steamed and what are the FCC’s rules regarding indecent programming?...

Two Burger King employees in Epping, New Hampshire, were discovered this past week selling marijuana through their employer’s fast food drive-thru window. When the police went to visit the home of the Whopper, they were served marijuana alongside their food. One of the employees was charged with possession with intent to distribute, while the other was charged with conspiracy, as well as unlawful possession of alcohol (neither are over 21 years old)....

A lawsuit over the tan Armani suit O.J. Simpson wore in 1995 on day he was acquitted of murder has ended. The O.J. Simpson trial acquittal suit will now be on display at the Newseum in Washington D.C. Mike Gilbert, Simpson’s former manager and Fred Goldman, the father of the man Simpson was charged with killing in 1994 have been involved in 13-year legal battle until a California judge ruled that Simpson’s “acquittal suit” could be donated to a museum, the Associated Press reports....

18 year-old Tyler Clementi was an enthusiastic college freshman at Rutgers University. A scholarship student and a skilled violinist, Clementi was enjoying his first year in college until he became the victim of a sex video posted by fellow students, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei. ABC News reports on the video that ultimately led Tyler Clementi to commit suicide. Asking his roommate (Ravi) for some privacy to have a friend over to their shared dorm room, Ravi and Wei met the request by secretly taping and streaming Clemnti’s sexual encounter with another male student....

Stone Temple Pilots recently sued fired frontman Scott Weiland, claiming that he sabotaged the band’s 20th anniversary tour by repeatedly skipping promotional shows, showing up late for concerts and using STP to promote his solo career, reports The Hollywood Reporter. In true music mayhem form, Weiland has countersued his old bandmates in Los Angeles, accusing them of conspiring to oust him, reports Entertainment Weekly. In the bitter court filings that are more like a tiff between lovers than business partners, Weiland makes it sound like he was a one-man-band....

There seem to be a lot of videos of animals doing cute or funny things on the internet these days. Unfortunately, that’s not the case in one video that was posted on social media. The video is of Garratt Haile throwing a kitten into a body of water while joking about it. Shot about a year ago, it was recently shared on social media, at which point several people contacted the police, and Haile was arrested....

People Magazine reports that Nicolas Cage has another lawsuit on his hands. This one is filed by his ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton, who also happens to be the mother of his first child. She is suing Nicolas Cage for fraud, breach of contract and blames the actors for her own financial debts which are estimated to be $1.2 million dollars. The lawsuit brings up the important question of unmarried parents and unmarried parental rights....

Urban Outfitters, the popular clothing store, has finally settled the lawsuit brought against it by the Navajo Nation over the Navajo product line the retailer introduced over five years ago. While the details of the settlement are confidential, the Navajo Nation announced that there will be a future partnership with the retailer to sell real Navajo jewelry. The lawsuit all started back in 2012 over Navajo panties, and other Navajo branded items, that Urban Outfitters started offering for sale in their stores....

Drunken driving crashes can often be fatal, elevating a simple DUI to a full-blown murder charge. Case in point: A drunken driver in Colorado accused of killing a 17-year-old boy in an accident Monday is now facing a first-degree murder charge for his alleged actions, reports The Denver Post. Ever Olivos-Gutierrez, 40, lacks a drivers license and has incurred “numerous” DUIs prior to Monday’s fatal crash. So when can a DUI be charged as murder?...

Famous (and at times infamous) music producer Marion “Suge” Knight has found himself once again in legal hot water. This time, Knight was arrested after a hit-and-run in which he allegedly ran over two people in his car, killing one of them. Knight’s attorney claimed he fled in his truck in self defense, because the two victims were actually trying to kill him following a fight on a film set. What crime does Knight stand accused of, and does he have any defenses?...

At some point in their lives, drivers will see an abandoned car on the side of the highway that looks like it broke down months ago, with a bright red, orange, or yellow sticker covering about a quarter of the windshield. That giant sticker is known as a windshield tag, and if it’s on the car, it means that local law enforcement has marked the vehicle to be impounded as an abandoned vehicle....

Another “tanning mom” is facing child endangerment charges, but not for allegedly taking a child into a tanning booth. Police in Elizabethtown, Pa., arrested Krista Mann after finding her two children – a 6-year-old girl and a 10-month-old boy – unattended in a running car while she went tanning at a salon across the street, WGAL-TV reports. An officer approached the car and asked the girl where her parents were. The girl told the officer about her mom’s tanning appointment – but then said she wasn’t supposed to talk to strangers and started to cry, police said....

Colorado’s neighbors aren’t the only ones upset about the Centennial State’s marijuana legalization laws. A Washington, D.C.-based anti-drug group is suing several Colorado defendants in U.S. District Court, claiming the defendants’ plans to sell marijuana under state legalization laws constitutes a violation of federal RICO statutes. Safe Streets Alliance, along with the owners of a Holiday Inn in Frisco, Colorado, are alleging that defendants’ plans to open a pot shop next door to the hotel constitutes racketeering....

We already know the rights of those arrested and charged with a crime are limited. DUI suspects must submit to blood and breath tests. And the police can collect DNA samples from anyone they arrest. But what about jails forcing women inmates to submit to pregnancy tests? This somewhat unusual practice was allegedly commonplace in Alameda County jails for several years, until the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the county over the practice....

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. retained Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree (inset) to represent him after being arrested on disorderly conduct charges by Cambridge police. The charges were subsequently dropped against Prof. Gates, but the legal fury over being accused of breaking into his own home, handcuffed and reportedly harassed by local law enforcement in front of his neighbors, may prompt Ogletree to file a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of his new client....

Nationwide foreclosure filings increased nine percent from June 2007 to July 2007, and saw a sharp increase of 93 percent from July 2006 to July 2007. The Washington Post is reporting that “179,599 foreclosure filings were reported during July, up from 92,845 in the year-ago month…A total of 164,644 foreclosure filings were reported in June.” According to MSNBC, “lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering various measures to restore a mortgage market now in disarray....

Everybody gets irritable about work sometimes. No matter how awesome a job might be, all jobs have some annoying aspects. That said, not all of us respond to stress the same way. We don’t all go postal, as the saying goes. So just how common is workplace violence? The US Department of Labor (DOL) says it is “a frustrating problem facing Federal agencies today” with “staggering costs.” And the numbers that the agency cites might shock you....

Laws that punish people who impersonate a police officer are still constitutional under the First Amendment, according to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Impersonating an officer is not a new offense and most states criminalize penalize fake cops. The constitutionality of those laws came under question after US v. Alvarez. In U.S. v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act. The rationale was that lying about being a war hero is protected by the First Amendment....