Groups that supported the California law were critical of the decision.

Under California law, the money would go to a public trust.

It is not clear that the shareholders would have to meet as difficult a test to make a case under California law.

Whether the California laws will do any good, however, remains to be seen.

The measure is based on a California law adopted in 1975.

Under California law he is likely to serve about three and a half years.

It was the first case brought under a new California law aimed at the parents of gang members.

Free publications have been particularly hard hit by the California law.

The final vote was 9 to 3, the minimum under California law.

It was created in 1944 and is an independent special district under California law.