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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 17, 2022 | The Recorder
A defense letter outlines that retailers aren't responsible for a drug's warning label, and that the "litigation-driven" claims have no scientific support. "Indeed, every regulatory body and credible medical organization to weigh in on this issue has agreed with FDA, and has refuted plaintiffs' claims," Barnes & Thornburg's Kristen Richer, a partner in Los Angeles, wrote in the Nov. 10 letter.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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 15, 2022 | Law.com
Walmart Inc. agreed to pay $3.1 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits by cities, counties, Native American tribes and states alleging its pharmacists failed to regulate opioid prescriptions, leading to a public health crisis in their communities.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
November 14, 2022 | The Recorder
Plaintiffs lawyers and Apple's attorneys filed a Nov. 11 motion to approve the deal, which the Ninth Circuit reversed on Sept. 28.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 9, 2022 | The Recorder
Thousands of Roundup cases remain unsettled, leading to a new spate of Roundup trials in California, Missouri and Oregon.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
November 9, 2022 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, on Wednesday, rejected a proposed leadership team in the multidistrict litigation alleging social media sites like Facebook and TikTok caused addiction, then questioned 24 plaintiffs lawyers one by one.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 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 But the Ninth Circuit, in a five-page unpublished opinion, found it lacked jurisdiction to review the order.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
November 2, 2022 | Law.com
The agreements in principle, announced on Wednesday, are dependent on the participation of cities, counties and states suing the pharmacies over the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 2, 2022 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Tom Durkin declined to sanction ex-Girardi Keese partners David Lira and Keith Griffin, who worked with Tom Girardi.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
October 28, 2022 | The Recorder
Dena Sharp, of Girard Sharp, cut her teeth on antitrust law, suing Google and pharmaceutical firms, but, in the past year, she played key roles in the first IVF-related loss trial and in class actions against Juul. "She's exactly who you want in the foxhole with you," said Lieff Cabraser's Sarah London, who worked with Sharp in both cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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