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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.
September 21, 2022 | Law.com
Many law firms are running their Puerto Rico offices on generators as Hurricane Fiona pelted the island this week with high winds and torrential rains. "The amount of water it dumped in a short amount of time was pretty impressive," said John Driscoll, who, like many plaintiffs lawyers, moved to Puerto Rico a few years ago.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
September 16, 2022 | Law.com
In a ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel found the defendant companies, including 3M, had "significantly greater knowledge" than the U.S. government about the risks of "forever chemicals" in their aqueous film-forming foam products.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
September 14, 2022 | Law.com
"The statistics suggest there may be something really wrong with the MDL process," said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is weighing what to do with 750 remaining Roundup lawsuits after Bayer settled most of the cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
September 13, 2022 | Daily Business Review
The U.S. Department of Justice objected to about $180,000 in incentive awards proposed in a $63 million class action settlement over the 2014 data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
September 9, 2022 | Daily Business Review
Law firms Aylstock Witkin and Bradley Grombacher, both at the forefront of other consumer recalls, will take lead roles in the multidistrict litigation over allegedly contaminated infant formula at an Abbott Laboratories plant.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
September 8, 2022 | Law.com
Facebook has raised an arsenal of legal defenses that could swiftly dismiss lawsuits alleging younger users have become addicted to social media, leading to mental health problems and, in some cases, suicides.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
August 25, 2022 | Law.com
Despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, more tort lawsuits were filed over motor vehicle accidents and premises liability, according to the 2022 Torts Litigation Report, released Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
August 16, 2022 | Daily Business Review
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, invoking the All Writs Act on Tuesday, ordered 3M not to challenge her rulings in bankruptcy court, where its subsidiary filed a Chapter 11 case last month citing a multidistrict litigation proceeding "broken beyond repair."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 11, 2022 | Law.com
At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers continued to focus on an indemnity agreement 3M reached on July 25 to transfer liability to its subsidiary, Aearo Technologies, which, one day later, filed for bankruptcy. "You can't use this court to perpetrate a fraud on a bankruptcy," she told one of 3M's lawyers.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 3, 2022 | Law.com
The trial, in Missouri, is the first since Bayer, which owns Monsanto, lost three potential appeals about Roundup, including two before the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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