A fight over California's prison health care system escalated Wednesday as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sought to throw out an $8 billion spending plan for inmate medical facilities, saying it's illegal and too costly.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars to recover the clean-up cost of the massive 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill.
Sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday of advancing a far-fetched legal theory to justify overturning it.
California is suing the Bush administration to block last-minute endangered species regulations that are intended to reduce input from federal scientists, state Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Tuesday.
Nearly four decades after entering California politics, Jerry Brown has reinvented himself yet again, this time as a carbon-fighting attorney general.
Environmental groups and California Attorney General Jerry Brown asked the federal government Wednesday to require oceangoing ships to limit emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
Gay-marriage opponents filed legal briefs Monday accusing California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown of having "invented an entirely new theory," one that "fails at every level," in his quest to find a reason to invalidate Proposition 8, which passed with 52% of the vote in November.
SAN FRANCISCO -- State Attorney General Jerry Brown was "profoundly wrong" and "invented an entirely new theory" when he urged the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8's same-sex marriage ban because voters can't be allowed to overturn fundamental liberties, attor …
The legal battle over gay marriage in California turned on Monday to whether the state's top court could strike down a change in the state constitution that was approved by voters.
State Attorney General Jerry Brown, in a surprise turnabout, asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to overturn Proposition 8, saying the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violates basic rights guaranteed in the state Constitution.
...[a]s relative newcomers at the time, we saw California as a place of limitless possibility. But much has changed in recent years.
Ken Starr, the lawyer who crusaded for years against President Clinton and led the impeachment effort, is now signing up to defend Proposition 8, California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban.
Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it.
Tom Bradley enjoyed the same type of love affair from the media that Barack Obama does today. Both candidates have appeared larger than life and hardly fallible. Indeed, both have compelling stories and project as decent, well-intentioned public servants.
(09-17) 07:28 PDT -- Opposition to a California ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage is mounting following Attorney General Jerry Brown's move to change the language on the initiative, according to a Field Poll to be released today.The poll found that just 38 percent of likely …
[from poster Stephen Fox, Contributing Editor Santa Fe Sun News: I have been writing for a long time about this, and I hope it will be Sec. of State Bill Richardson, Sec. of Health Howard Dean, and Attorney General Jerry Brown. Why not have the best of the best?]
3 cabinet picks (mine, anyway!) Secretary of State William Blaine Richardson III, Governor of New Mexico Secretary of Health Howard Dean III, M.D. Attorney General Edmund Gerald Brown Jr., former Governor and present Attorney General of California, plus stem cells made from …
Last Monday evening, in the plush environs of Los Angeles' American Jewish University, a dedicated group of pro-peace, Pro-Constitution patriots "booked" Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. No, I don't mean "booked" as in charged her with a crime and jailed her.
Largest US "organic" grocery chain, already under seige from California for Carcinogens in Body Care Products, faces very serious legal challenge in DC Appeals Court ruling that merger must go back to lower court, as Federal Trade Commision requested....With 40 years of consisten …
A harsh, historically accurate, and succinct view of why our first African-American Presidential Candidate needs a series of vehicles resembling the Popemobiles.
This article is also posted at mybarackobama website here:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER may be less than halfway through his final term as California's governor, but the slow dance to replace him is already under way. One figure looms above all others. Jerry Brown is not, you understand, running a campaign just yet.
Dr. Prem Reddy's Prime Healthcare Services Inc. is spending more than $50 million to buy Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, a nearly 50-year-old, 224-bed hospital that has lost money in recent years.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., caused a stir recently when she criticized talk radio for its role in stopping the recent immigration bill. Talk radio, she lectured, "pushes people to . . . extreme views without a lot of information."
The identity theft case against former Hewlett-Packard Co chair Patricia Dunn has been thrown out of court, closing a turbulent chapter in HP's history.
California's newly elected attorney general, Jerry Brown, will continue a suit filed by former AG Bill Lockyer against U.S. and Japanese automakers for contributing to global warming.
I swear if the Democrats as a party endorsed and ran sincerely on a flat tax program, they would trounce the Republicans.