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Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
February 14, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said at a Tuesday hearing that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management's rehearing petition would delay any potential mandate that would prompt him to dismiss the Chapter 11 case.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 10, 2023 | Law.com
Despite losing several appeals, Bayer petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a Roundup ruling on federal preemption.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
January 30, 2023 | Law.com
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a bankruptcy judge's decision, concluding that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management was not in financial distress at the time it filed its Chapter 11 case in 2021.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 30, 2023 | Law.com
In lawsuits, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever and others are challenging the scientific methods used by Valisure, the Connecticut laboratory whose reports have prompted recalls, and subsequent class actions, over drugs, sunscreen and dry shampoo.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
December 19, 2022 | Law.com
In a Dec. 16 complaint, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management claimed Dr. Jacqueline Moline falsified a 2019 article on which plaintiffs lawyers relied in cases linking mesothelioma to its baby powder.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
December 8, 2022 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg ruled that plaintiffs' experts in the Zantac multidistrict litigation had "unreliable methodologies" and "analytical leaps" from existing data.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 9, 2022 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, on Wednesday, rejected a proposed leadership team in the multidistrict litigation alleging social media sites like Facebook and TikTok caused addiction, then questioned 24 plaintiffs lawyers one by one.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
November 8, 2022 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, in a 2021 holding in the multidistrict litigation over Monsanto's Roundup pesticide, called common benefit fees "totally out of control," sending shockwaves throughout the mass torts bar. But the Ninth Circuit, in a five-page unpublished opinion, found it lacked jurisdiction to review the order.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
November 2, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
The agreements in principle, announced on Wednesday, are dependent on the participation of cities, counties and states suing the pharmacies over the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 1, 2022 | Law.com
Another trial over Monsanto's Roundup pesticide opened on Tuesday near its headquarters in St. Louis. Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, has won the past five Roundup trials.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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