SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is trying to break 2-year-old legal logjam created when a federal judge stopped executions in the state.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge says record labels cannot order YouTube users to remove videos featuring their music unless they can show it's not a legal "fair use."

SACRAMENTO, April 14 (UPI) -- California has been quietly building a larger death chamber at San Quentin Prison to meet a federal judge's criticism of its execution process.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A federal judge in California ruled Friday that the state's execution procedure risks violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The judge who halted a lethal injection in California explored a new drug protocol that cuts the risk of an inmate experiencing excruciating pain on execution.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- California's attorney general believes a legal challenge to lethal injection as cruel and unusual is likely to bar any executions in 2006.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Under a new death row procedure, doctors will be allowed inside California's death row to supervise lethal injections given to the condemned.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A federal court in San Jose, Calif., has ruled that when it comes to medicinal marijuana, federal law takes precedence over state practices. The Wo/Men''s Alliance for Medical Marijuana in Santa Cruz was raided by Drug Enforcement Administration agents la

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Opponents of California's gubernatorial recall cheered Friday's ruling by a federal judge that might postpone the Oct. 7 election.