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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.
August 25, 2022 | Law.com
Settlements over the 2021 recalls of consumer products like aerosol sunscreen and deodorant are under attack from both from well-known class action objector Ted Frank and other plaintiffs lawyers, who claim they were shut out of the negotiations.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 25, 2022 | Law.com
Despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, more tort lawsuits were filed over motor vehicle accidents and premises liability, according to the 2022 Torts Litigation Report, released Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
August 23, 2022 | New Jersey Law Journal
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Tort Reform Association, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Product Liability Advisory Council and the Washington Legal Foundation filed amicus briefs on Monday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit backing the Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
August 17, 2022 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, on Wednesday, ordered the three pharmacies to provide abatement funds to two Ohio counties who won a Nov. 23 verdict over the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
July 26, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
Teva negotiated the deal with the plaintiffs executive committee in the opioid multidistrict litigation, along with a "working group" of attorneys general of 12 states, including Texas, California, New York and Pennsylvania.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 18, 2022 | Law.com
At a July 15 hearing, U.S. District Judge William Orrick agreed with plaintiffs attorneys to replace the first bellwether trial against Juul after the FDA banned its electronic cigarettes last month.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 15, 2022 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is already mulling possible sanctions against Facebook's lawyers, excoriated the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team again for their conduct during a May 5 deposition. "We are doing our best," Gibson Dunn partner Rosemarie Ring said at a June 9 hearing. "That is not doing your best," Chhabria interrupted.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 7, 2022 | Law.com
Monsanto, owned by Bayer AG, has lost $269 million in verdicts from three trials brought by teachers, parents and kids exposed to PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyls, while attending the Sky Valley Education Center in Monroe, Washington.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
April 21, 2022 | Law.com
About 16% of attorneys appointed to leadership roles in multidistrict litigation created in 2021 identified as nonwhite, up slightly from 14% in 2020. In 2016, only 4% went to nonwhite attorneys.
By Amanda Bronstad
11 minute read
April 12, 2022 | Texas Lawyer
On Monday, lawyers at Gibson Dunn said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's statements about discovery sanctions were based on a "false and misleading account" by the plaintiffs' attorneys, who filed a sanctions motion last month in lawsuits against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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