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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.
November 16, 2022 | The Recorder
Johnson & Johnson has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a $344 million transvaginal mesh verdict for the state of California in a bench trial against its Ethicon unit.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 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 But the Ninth Circuit, in a five-page unpublished opinion, found it lacked jurisdiction to review the order.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
October 24, 2022 | Law.com
Attorney Danielle Mason said she planned to file two more lawsuits this week.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
October 17, 2022 | Law.com
Drug companies settled opioid lawsuits for billions of dollars this year, and some filed for bankruptcy, but several closely watched appeals are coming up, and, for some defendants, such as pharmacies, the fight has just begun.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
October 5, 2022 | Law.com
On Wednesday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation combined 65 lawsuits alleging the painkiller acetaminophen, when taken by pregnant women, increased the risk of children developing autism or ADHD.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
September 19, 2022 | Law.com
Jeffrey Lamken, representing talcum powder claimants, argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to reverse a bankruptcy ruling halting 38,000 talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson. Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal represented Johnson & Johnson's bankrupt subsidiary LTL Management.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
September 14, 2022 | Law.com
"The statistics suggest there may be something really wrong with the MDL process," said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is weighing what to do with 750 remaining Roundup lawsuits after Bayer settled most of the cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
September 9, 2022 | Law.com
Law firms Aylstock Witkin and Bradley Grombacher, both at the forefront of other consumer recalls, will take lead roles in the multidistrict litigation over allegedly contaminated infant formula at an Abbott Laboratories plant.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
September 8, 2022 | Law.com
Facebook has raised an arsenal of legal defenses that could swiftly dismiss lawsuits alleging younger users have become addicted to social media, leading to mental health problems and, in some cases, suicides.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
August 26, 2022 | Law.com
Friday's order by Chief Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham in Indianapolis means lawsuits would go forward against 3M alleging the earplugs caused hearing loss and ringing of the ears.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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