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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.
January 22, 2024 | Law.com
In a Jan. 10 letter, U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Michael Kaplan of the District of New Jersey asked the Federal Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure to change a rule that prohibits bankruptcy judges from appointing special masters.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
December 20, 2023 | New Jersey Law Journal
Plaintiffs lawyer Andy Birchfield fired back against Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, calling its motion to disqualify him and his firm, Beasley Allen, from the talc multidistrict litigation the 'latest example in a long line of smear tactics.'
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
November 27, 2023 | Law.com
Major League Baseball, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team and two ad agencies, Wasserman Media Group and Dentsu McGarry Bowen, were sued on Monday as the latest promoters of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
October 24, 2023 | The Recorder
On Tuesday, attorneys general from 41 states and the District of Columbia sued Meta alleging Instagram and Facebook are "unsafe and addictive" to youth.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
October 23, 2023 | Law.com
The inaugural "Digital Payments in Class Actions and Mass Torts" report, released on Monday by Western Alliance Bank's Digital Disbursements, found 170 settlements had a digital payment option in 2022, up from two in 2019.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
October 19, 2023 | Law.com
At a Sept. 6 status hearing, lawyers on both sides of the talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson debated the impact of the upcoming amendments to Federal Rule 702 of Evidence.
By Amanda Bronstad | Ross Todd | Ellen Bardash
6 minute read
September 20, 2023 | Law.com
David Cohen, the special master in the opioid multidistrict litigation, sent an Aug. 28 email accidentally to lawyers in the cases. Now, two pharmacy benefit managers have moved to disqualify him, insisting the email 'would lead any reasonable observer to question his impartiality.'
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
September 18, 2023 | Law.com
Defense lawyers insist there's been an uptick in mass arbitration, but many plaintiffs firms remain cautious.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
September 7, 2023 | The Recorder
At a final approval hearing on Thursday, plaintiffs' attorney Derek Loeser said there were 17 million claims in the Facebook settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal -- the 'most we've ever seen, and most ever submitted in a class action.'
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
September 7, 2023 | Law.com
The class action settlement, announced on Thursday, provides cash payments to consumers who purchased the recalled devices and $100 awards to those who return them.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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