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As summer approaches, weather-appropriate attire is an absolute must, and on a hot sticky summer day in NYC, the dress code may call for you to be topless.

But it's not only the fashion police who will have to give you a pass. The boys in blue of the NYPD will also have to keep their cuffs in their pockets, according to a memo revealed in a topless woman's lawsuit.

The NYPD memo clarifies that being a shirtless woman is not an arrestable offense in New York City.

A New York woman is being called to task for allegedly setting up her adoption by an elderly man in order to get his rent-controlled apartment.

Pamela Becker, 62, was legally adopted by 85-year-old Nicholas DeTommaso in 2009. After DeTommasso died that year, Becker took over the lease to DeTommaso's flat in Queens. The monthly rent: just $100.

But last month, Becker was crestfallen to learn that the New York Division of Housing and Community Renewal had ruled that she was not entitled to the extremely cheap apartment, The New York Post reports.

It appears that respect for judicial officers has gone up in smoke in Washington state, as Tacoma police have refused a court order to return seized marijuana to its owner.

Judge Jack Emery ordered the police to return the pot to Joseph L. Robertson back in February, but law enforcement has decided to bogart his stash, reports The News Tribune.

Despite obvious issues with police refusing to follow a court order, the larger question remains: Do Robertson and others in Washington have legal property rights to their grass?

A man with Tourette syndrome says he wasn't allowed to board a flight at Reagan National Airport because he blurted out the word "bomb" nearly 100 times.

Since the flight left without him, 19-year-old Michael Doyle -- and his incredibly supportive friend who stayed behind with him -- missed taking part in an 18th-century battle re-enactment in Puerto Rico, which the two of them had been planning to attend for the last two years, reports ABC News.

Considering Doyle's uncontrollable outbursts, was it legal to bar him from flying?

The CEO of restaurant chain Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill announced that the company has officially trademarked the name "breastaurant" with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Perhaps a tongue-in-cheek name used by other restaurants like "Hooters" and "Twin Peaks" and "Canz" was not good enough for this Texas-based chain. Instead, they had to hit their customers over the head by specifying exactly why they are going to the restaurant, or excuse us, breastaurant.

CEO Doug Guller stated in a press release that he was really excited about getting the trademark and said that his employees hard work over the past seven years "solidifies that Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill is America's ONLY breastaurant," reports Fox News.

Disneyland is "the happiest place on earth," unless you are one of the black kids who were allegedly rejected by the White Rabbit last August.

Jason and Annelia Black, who are African American, say they took their sons to Disneyland last summer. When they saw an actor dressed as the White Rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland," Jason Jr. and his brother Elijah both wanted to take a photo with the character.

They got their photo, but the actor refused to hug the boys or shake their hands, their parents claim. However, when a white family showed up, the rabbit's affectionate demeanor returned. The Blacks filed a complaint.

When Lazaro Sopena married Hahn Dinh, he took his wife's last name so that her family name would continue. His wife, you see, has no brothers to continue the line. What a great husband, right?

To make it official, he went through the appropriate process of changing his passport, Social Security card, and bank account information. Then he got a new driver's license. Or so he thought.

Lazaro Sopena -- now Lazaro Dinh -- received his license with his new last name. But a little more than a year later, his license was suspended.

It's possible to get a DUI charge on almost any vehicle: a Zamboni, a buggy, a motorized arm chair, we've seen it all. But apparently a Segway is where Minnesota draws the line.

A state court of appeals ruled that the self-balancing, two-wheeled, 95-pound personal transit machine can be driven while drunk without violating the law. Or at least without violating any laws about driving while intoxicated.

That's good news for Mark Greenman, who was arrested for a DUI while riding his Segway last year. And it wasn't his first Segway DUI, either.

Everyone loves a romance story and when a teacher marries a student, it has to be a good one. Oh, and it is.

The happy couple is 42-year-old Leah Gayle Shipman and her husband, Johnny Ray Ison. He just turned 19. But when the couple's relationship began, he was only 15 years old, and Shipman was a teacher at his school.

Shipman was arrested for statutory rape in 2009 after having sex with Ison; had she been convicted, she could have faced 15 years in prison. But thanks to her new teenage husband, the law can't touch her.

Prosecutors argued that a California woman was raped when a man impersonated her boyfriend and had sex with her as she slept.

But a California appeals court has ruled that an unmarried woman is not capable of being raped by trickery such as impersonation. The court explained these laws protect married women only.

Since the woman in this case was not married, the court reversed the man's rape conviction. But prosecutors will be able to try him again on a different legal theory.