Amanda Bronstad

March 15, 2006 | Law.com

The entertainment industry is weighing in on a case would determine whether punitive damages apply in certain business contracts involving inventors.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

August 17, 2009 | Law.com

For the first time in decades, judges are absorbing direct pay cuts or work furloughs to help their states grapple with severe budget deficits. In some cases, judges are having reductions imposed upon them by legislators. Others are voluntarily accepting pay cuts, even in states with constitutional limits on cutting judicial pay. But not everyone is on board with the voluntary cuts.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

September 14, 2011 | Law.com

A public school district in San Diego did not violate a math teacher's constitutional rights in ordering him to take down large banners in his classroom that espoused the role of God in the nation's history, a federal appeal court has ruled.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

December 14, 2010 | Law.com

Lawyers representing Mattel Inc. in its ongoing legal dispute with the manufacturer of Bratz dolls have filed a motion to disqualify opposing counsel Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, citing a conflict of interest that arose after the firm hired an associate who has previously worked on the other side of the same case.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

August 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

California Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr. has subpoenaed records from Best Best & Krieger in an investigation of the pay packages for city officials in Bell, Calif., where a scandal involving high salaries has spiraled into possible civil and criminal actions and raised questions among officials in other nearby cities.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

July 31, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

California lawyer William A. Goddard and his former firm, Lee, Goddard & Duffy, have reached an agreement with federal agents who are seeking documents related to the criminal investigation of fraudulent tax shelters sold by accounting giant KPMG. The firm turned over 10,000 pages of documents, but rejected an IRS agent's request for additional information related to 24 individuals and companies, court papers say. It's unclear whether Goddard could face civil penalties or criminal charges.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read

January 25, 2011 | National Law Journal

Federal Judge John Roll's successor has acted on a request Roll made last year to declare an emergency in Arizona, which has one of the highest caseloads in the U.S. due to illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

August 30, 2010 | Law.com

The $20 billion compensation fund for victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has begun taking applications, but plaintiffs lawyers doubt it will significantly forestall litigation. It could even lead to a new wave of lawsuits. Many of their clients, especially large businesses, are unlikely to seek final settlements anytime soon, they said. The claims process might not give them enough time to calculate their losses, and it's unclear whether the fund would compensate those geographically remote from the spill.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

October 09, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

When Summit Entertainment LLC needed an attorney to help promote its new vampire movie, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," General Counsel David Friedman turned to someone he knew well: an old colleague from his former job at Paramount Pictures.

By Amanda Bronstad

10 minute read

May 11, 2011 | The Recorder

By Amanda Bronstad

7 minute read