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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 7, 2018 | The Recorder
Plaintiff's lawyer R. Brent Wisner asked jurors to award more than $39 million in compensatory damages and $373 million in punitive damages to his client, Dewayne “Lee” Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 6, 2018 | Texas Lawyer
Texas plaintiffs attorney Mikal Watts is asking for at least $150 million in legal fees from the $1.5 billion settlement with Syngenta AG, citing his firm's “unique position in this litigation.”
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 3, 2018 | National Law Journal
A federal appeals court sided with an objector who sought fees in a settlement over drink vouchers on Southwest Airlines—but issued a stern warning to the lawyers to end the case.
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 3, 2018 | New York Law Journal
The lawsuits, filed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, allege that Merck failed to warn that the virus in the vaccine caused shingles, brain damage and death, among other things.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 2, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer
A federal judicial panel has sent about 100 lawsuits brought over Merck's shingles vaccine to Pennsylvania.
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 2, 2018 | National Law Journal
Boeing argued this week that a final report into the disappearance of Malaysia Air Flight 370 supports its bid to dismiss dozens of lawsuits brought in U.S. courts on behalf of the families of deceased passengers.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 1, 2018 | National Law Journal
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver said the decision gives the state of Michigan a “free pass.”
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 1, 2018 | Law.com
One day after more than $100 billion in Facebook stock value was erased, a team of New York-based litigators filed a proposed class action suit against the social media company, contending its leaders misled shareholders about its business operations.
By Amanda Bronstad
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July 27, 2018 | The Recorder
A federal judge in California has appointed two lawyers to lead class actions brought against Facebook Inc. over the Cambridge Analytica scandal over misuse of user data.
By Amanda Bronstad
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July 27, 2018 | The Recorder
A federal appeals court has agreed to review a decision en banc that has alarmed class action lawyers on both sides for potentially threatening the viability of nationwide settlements.
By Amanda Bronstad
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