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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.
June 5, 2023 | Daily Business Review
"A significant part of FTX's conduct allegedly emanated from this district, where it had its U.S. headquarters before filing for bankruptcy," the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled.
By Michael A. Mora | Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 28, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal in Florida signed off Monday on a class action settlement over Johnson & Johnson's recalled sunscreen but criticized objector lawyer Ted Frank for holding up the deal's final approval.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 16, 2023 | Law.com
National law firms like Simmons Hanley Conroy and Motley Rice descended this week on East Palestine, Ohio, where a freight train derailed earlier this month, exposing residents to hazardous chemicals. Some have already filed class actions against train operator Norfolk Southern Corp.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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 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
January 30, 2023 | Law.com
In lawsuits, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever and others are challenging the scientific methods used by Valisure, the Connecticut laboratory whose reports have prompted recalls, and subsequent class actions, over drugs, sunscreen and dry shampoo.
By Amanda Bronstad
10 minute read
January 18, 2023 | The Recorder
In opening statements on Wednesday, a lawyer for Tesla shareholders insisted that Elon Musk's 2018 tweets were lies that caused investor losses. Musk's lawyer said the statements weren't fraudulent.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 22, 2022 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, on Thursday, ordered that 3M could not argue its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was liable for allegedly defective combat earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
November 30, 2022 | Law.com
At a Nov. 17 hearing, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, who is overseeing the Exactech multidistrict litigation in New York, indicated a "preference" for plaintiffs lawyers to include "younger or newer lawyers who are learning the trade," according to a transcript.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 23, 2022 | Daily Business Review
Carlton Fields shareholder Thomas Meeks has moved to transfer four class actions alleging Not Your Mother's dry shampoo contains benzene to U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal in Fort Lauderdale.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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