When Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were negotiating a final state budget last June, they reduced some health and welfare programs to help close a multi-billion-dollar gap between income ...

"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a criminal statute the doctrine of lenity, among other established rules, acts as ...

The settlement in the highly publicized Bill O'Reilly sexual harassment case has threatened to bury, and thereby shield from public censure, a defense strategy that should appall anyone concerned ...

Agency reports 100 extortion-related disclosures to law enforcement since the start of the year, more than the past two years ...