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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 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 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 6, 2024 | Law.com
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules on Tuesday heard public comments on its proposed Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 16.1, the first rule governing multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 2, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
On Friday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered 55 cases filed against Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk over Ozempic, Mounjaro and other medications be coordinated into multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 1, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Johnson & Johnson subpoenaed records concerning plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline and a partnership involving attorney Andy Birchfield and one of its former lawyers.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 29, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Motley Rice's Daniel Lapinski filed the Jan. 22 request for multicounty litigation designation of 10 Roundup cases, all of which were filed in New Jersey state courts since Dec. 18, 2023.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
January 29, 2024 | Law.com
At a Friday hearing, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she planned to reject social media's request to grant interlocutory appeal of her Nov. 14 ruling refusing to dismiss addiction claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 23, 2024 | Law.com
The amicus briefs, filed on Monday, support a petition from an claimants committee in the Bestwall LLC bankruptcy for the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an injunction order blocking mesothelioma victims from pursing their asbestos lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 22, 2024 | Law.com
In a Jan. 10 letter, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Michael Kaplan of the District of New Jersey asked the Federal Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure to change a rule that prohibits bankruptcy judges from appointing special masters.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 5, 2024 | The Recorder
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton in Los Angeles unsealed her competency order, concluding that the arguments of Girardi's lawyers were "wholly lacking in credibility," and some evidence showed "no more than normal age-related decline."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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