Amanda Bronstad

December 15, 2009 | National Law Journal

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the entire criminal stock-options backdating case against two former Broadcom Corp. executives, concluding that the government's handling of the case "distorted the truth-finding process" and made a "mockery" of the defendants' due process rights.

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read

February 04, 2010 | The Recorder

The automaker has been deluged by lawsuits over product-safety defects in some of its most popular vehicles.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

July 14, 2009 | Law.com

The California Supreme Court has denied a petition to review an asbestos liability case in which a Los Angeles judge blasted the plaintiff's firm, Waters & Kraus, for engaging in a "type of judicially sanctioned extortion." Meanwhile, the firm's managing partner says, "The trial judge in his order cast some aspersions on us and our conduct, and invited the court to reconsider this on appeal. But the intermediate appeal court and the Supreme Court declined to do that and reaffirmed that what we did was entirely proper."

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

February 23, 2007 | Law.com

More than 60 lawsuits have been filed in the past two months against major retailers and restaurants for violating a provision of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act that forbids cash register receipts from displaying the expiration date or more than the last five digits of a customer's credit card number. "Some of our clients are past victims of identity theft who take these issues very seriously," said Greg Karasik of Spiro Moss Barness Harrison & Barge, which has filed three dozen of the suits.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 19, 2009 | The Recorder

We present a Q&A with White & Case's Andrew Oringer about punitive actions being considered by Congress.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

November 30, 2010 | National Law Journal

Dole Food Co. Inc. must pay nearly $200,000 in attorney fees and costs to two Swedish filmmakers, a judge in Los Angeles ordered after dismissing the company's defamation lawsuit over a documentary depicting the alleged plight of banana plantation workers.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

August 01, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

August 20, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

For the first time in decades, judges are absorbing direct pay cuts or work furloughs to help their states grapple with severe budget deficits.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

August 03, 2006 | Law.com

A California judge has granted demurrers in eight lawsuits filed against the University of California, Irvine by patients who claim they were not notified that doctors at the hospital might have stolen their eggs and embryos. The suits are the latest in a medical negligence scandal that made worldwide headlines about a decade ago when three UCI doctors were accused of stealing human eggs and embryos to conduct research or impregnate other women, some of whom gave birth.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

March 29, 2010 | The Recorder

Plaintiffs' lawyers including Lieff Cabraser partner Elizabeth Cabraser convened in San Diego for a hearing in the Toyota litigation; a decision on the venue is expected within a few weeks.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read