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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.
June 27, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
Starting on Tuesday, U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan will hear four days of arguments and testimony on whether to dismiss the second Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Law.com
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
May 31, 2023 | The Recorder
Allison Brown, a lawyer for Johnson & Johnson, questioned the facts of the case, which is in California's Alameda County Superior Court: She noted that many of the stores where the plaintiff's mother testified she bought its baby powder were more than 100 miles from her house.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 23, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
The judge denied a demand from defendants to disclose of 33 individuals in a plaintiff's expert's 2019 report, used in talc cases nationwide to link cosmetic talc to mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
May 16, 2023 | Law.com
A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary filed its Chapter 11 reorganization plan on Monday, but lawyers for talc claimants already raised concerns about it at a Tuesday hearing.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
May 10, 2023 | Law.com
The plaintiff, Anthony Hernandez Valadez, is 24 years old and alleges Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused his diagnosis of a pericardial mesothelioma, a terminal cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
May 3, 2023 | Law.com
At a Wednesday bankruptcy hearing, plaintiffs' lawyers raised concerns that Randi Ellis, whose re-appointment as the representative for future claims is pending, wasn't impartial anymore given her alleged involvement in preparing the second Chapter 11 case.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 27, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, is set to decide whether plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline must disclose the 33 individuals in her 2019 article, one of the first to link cosmetic talcum powder to mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
April 25, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
In a Monday motion, a talc claimants committee said Johnson & Johnson's LTL Management manufactured financial distress when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this month.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
April 21, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, in New York, refused on Thursday to dismiss 72 lawsuits alleging taking Tylenol while pregnant increases the risks of children developing autism or ADHD.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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