SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday criticized the state's largest pension funds for continuing to invest in companies in Iran.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is planning to create a Climate Service to respond to the many requests NOAA receives from businesses and communities, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said Monday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller's office filed charges Monday against the former manager of the Iowa Film Office and others connected to the filming of a movie.

BURLINGAME, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California's largest teachers' union has put $500,000 into its campaign to repeals corporate tax breaks intended by Republican lawmakers to jumpstart the state's lagging economy.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)- Retroactive pension increases paid to some retired public employees in California are unconstitutional, a Republican candidate for state attorney general said Monday.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - Agreements have been announced by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo with a venture capital firm and a placement agent firm to resolve allegations of their roles in pay-to-play practices involving the New York State Common Retirement Fund.

NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - While New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has said Bank of America's merger with Merrill Lynch helped lead to the near-collapse of the financial system, a Wall Street Journal editorial says that feeling is misguided.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Legal Newsline)-California attorney general hopeful Ted Lieu, the only state lawmaker also currently in military service, was promoted Monday to lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.