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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 25, 2022 | Law.com
"The court is not persuaded by the objecting parties' allegations of gamesmanship or inequity," the judge wrote.
By Avalon Zoppo | Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
February 24, 2022 | Law.com
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a 24-year-old passenger of Ethiopian Air Flight 302, which crashed in 2019, wants to add Boeing CEO David Calhoun and former CEO Dennis Muilenburg as defendants. "None of them has been held accountable," attorney Shanin Specter said of Boeing's executives.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 16, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
U.S. District Senior Judge Joy Flowers Conti, in Pittsburgh, appointed 33 attorneys in the multidistrict litigation brought over last year's recalled Philips breathing machines.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 3, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
In three amicus briefs granted Thursday, law professors specializing in bankruptcy, constitutional law and complex litigation supported dismissal of the Chapter 11 case involving thousands of talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 2, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
On Wednesday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation sent two dozen lawsuits against SoClean to U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti, who is already overseeing the multidistrict litigation over the Philips breathing machine recall in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 27, 2022 | Law.com
Roundup MDL Judge Vince Chhabria called on a federal rules committee last year to review common benefit fees in multidistrict litigation, which he called "totally out of control." But rules changes are unlikely.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
January 21, 2022 | Delaware Law Weekly
Laura Davis Jones, a partner at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in Wilmington, Delaware, said at the hearing that the dual committees would "foster division, not compromise," and create an "enhanced footing of one subset of talc claimants."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 6, 2022 | Daily Business Review
At the first hearing in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's sunscreen, several plaintiff lawyers questioned a proposed class action settlement reached within months of the July 14 recall.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 5, 2022 | Law.com
The Ferraro Law Firm in Miami has accused lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder of a "money grab" by collecting potential common benefit fees on two dozen lawsuits he settled.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
December 21, 2021 | Law.com
Lawyers for talc claimants have moved to dismiss the Chapter 11 case, filed by LTL Management, a newly created subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to resolve more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder products cause ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
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