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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.
February 14, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said at a Tuesday hearing that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management's rehearing petition would delay any potential mandate that would prompt him to dismiss the Chapter 11 case.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 13, 2023 | Law.com
On Monday, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Jeffrey Graham, in Indianapolis, told lawyers that dismissal arguments would be April 19 and April 20, possibly extending to April 21.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 10, 2023 | Law.com
David Lira, 62, who is Tom Girardi's son-in-law, appeared virtually at a hearing in Chicago, where federal prosecutors indicted him Feb. 1 on charges of stealing $3 million from the families of airplane crash victims.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 10, 2023 | Law.com
Despite losing several appeals, Bayer petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a Roundup ruling on federal preemption.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
Christopher Kamon, who was Girardi Keese's CFO from 2004 to 2020, appeared virtually in a federal court in Chicago on Thursday for his arraignment.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
"This case is an example of a wealthy client (Facebook) and its high-powered law firm (Gibson Dunn) using delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments to make litigation unfairly difficult and expensive for their opponents," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 8, 2023 | Law.com
At a Tuesday hearing in Los Angeles, Larry Gabriel, an attorney for Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, implored U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell to allow him to amend his complaint against the firm's lender. "This is too big of a case to be given one shot," he said.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 8, 2023 | Law.com
Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
February 6, 2023 | The Recorder
Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Stevenson entered the plea at an arraignment hearing in downtown Los Angeles and granted a request from Tom Girardi's lawyers to file documents under seal about his "medical and mental health exam."
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 3, 2023 | Law.com
Lawyers suing 3M over its combat earplugs moved on Friday to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, citing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's ruling on Monday dismissing Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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