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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 27, 2024 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, who is weighing a disqualification motion in the opioid multidistrict litigation, raised concerns this month about Motley Rice obtaining confidential information while representing the state of Hawaii, the District of Columbia and the city of Chicago in other cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 26, 2024 | Law.com
The wide range of Roundup verdicts, from defense wins for Monsanto to a $2.25 billion award, could be due to what jurors hear at trial about the EPA and foreign regulatory agencies.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
February 23, 2024 | The Recorder
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is overseeing most of the 35 lawsuits against 23andMe in the Northern District of California, said he planned to wait until the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decides next month whether to coordinate the cases into multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 21, 2024 | Law.com
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 20, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Judges in both federal and state courts in New Jersey scheduled a March 25 evidentiary hearing to determine whether to disqualify Andy Birchfield and his firm, Beasley Allen, from the talcum powder multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 20, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
"Civility helps bring out the best in people," Pratter said, "just like being uncivil tends to hide the merits of a case and unnecessarily inflames people to get involved in side squabbles that do not move the case along."
By Aleeza Furman | Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 16, 2024 | Law.com
The fee committee, which is comprised of the three lead plaintiffs' firms in the Roundup multidistrict litigation, allocated 81% to themselves, but three firms objected to their allocations.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 14, 2024 | Law.com
Roundup trials are scheduled to start in the coming week in California, Pennsylvania and Arkansas. A fourth trial began earlier this month in Delaware.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 14, 2024 | Law.com
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
February 12, 2024 | The Recorder
At least five plaintiffs' firms, including Wisner Baum, which won verdicts of $289 million and $2 billion in 2018 and 2019, are objecting to the allocation of common benefit fees in the Roundup multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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