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More than 500 law firms moved to file an amicus brief on Friday in support of Perkins Coie's lawsuit against the Trump administration's executive order that targeted the firm over its representation of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. "The Executive Order at issue in this case, and the others like it, take direct aim at several of the Nation's leading law firms and seek to cow every other firm, large and small, into submission," the amicus brief says. "The looming threat posed by the Executive Order at issue in this case and the others like it is not lost on anyone...

SACRAMENTO -- A game of political chicken under way in the Capitol has left California's cities and counties facing a fiscal disaster of historic proportions. When the Legislature finished approving a state budget recovery plan sought by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week, it left one extremely important piece of business unfinished. That is the replacement of $4 billion a year in local government revenues that were eliminated when Schwarzenegger rolled back the vehicle license fee last month. Incredibly, when lawmakers approved measures for the March ballot calling for a $15 billion bond issue to pay off the state budget deficit...