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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.
April 23, 2015 | National Law Journal
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC has agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle claims that its negligence and misstatements about its technical capabilities contributed to shareholder losses on the day of Facebook Inc.'s 2012 initial public offering.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 21, 2015 | National Law Journal
It stinks to be No. 2—that's why two leading diaper pail makers have spent years wrangling in court over who's No. 1 at keeping odor out. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday struck down Munchkin Inc.'s attempts to revive a $13.5 million false advertising verdict against Playtex Products LLC, maker of the Diaper Genie.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 16, 2015 | National Law Journal
More than 200 people who were injured or died in accidents attributed to an ignition switch defect have filed new lawsuits this year against General Motors Co., having found little recourse in a victim compensation fund administered by attorney Kenneth Feinberg.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 15, 2015 | National Law Journal
A bankruptcy judge has barred many of the claims brought against General Motors Co. over its ignition-switch defect. Wednesday's ruling, by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber of the Southern District of New York, means that GM isn't liable for its actions prior to its 2009 exit from bankruptcy that dealt with the ignition-switch defect.
By By Amanda Bronstad
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April 10, 2015 | National Law Journal
In 2010, Circuit Judge Richard Posner refused to dismiss antitrust litigation filed over the price of text messages. On Thursday, he struck down the same lawsuit.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 8, 2015 | National Law Journal
A retired California Supreme Court judge is fighting a subpoena that would force him to explain how he calculated payments to dozens of women who claim their former attorneys at Girardi Keese cheated them out of settlement funds.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 7, 2015 | National Law Journal
A federal appeals court has affirmed a former Nixon Peabody partner's prison term of seven years, clarifying for the first time that lawyers convicted of covering up their clients' crimes could face additional enhancements to their sentences.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 6, 2015 | National Law Journal
More than 75 class actions have been filed against Lumber Liquidators Inc., claiming that it mislabeled laminated wood flooring that emits dangerously high levels of formaldehyde gas.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 1, 2015 | National Law Journal
More than 75 class actions have been filed against Lumber Liquidators Inc. claiming that it mislabeled laminated wood flooring that emits dangerously high levels of formaldehyde gas.
By Amanda Bronstad
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March 31, 2015 | National Law Journal
BP PLC for the first time has identified in court papers the amount its subsidiary should pay in civil fines for its role in the Deepwater Horizon spill, claiming that anything more than $2.3 billion could result in insolvency.
By Amanda Bronstad
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