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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.
March 25, 2024 | Law.com
Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, in the Southern District of Illinois, has issued a series of discovery orders after finding many of the 5,200 lawsuits over paraquat are "implausible on their face."
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
February 8, 2024 | Law.com
A federal judge on Thursday granted final approval to DuPont's $1.185 billion settlement with an estimated 14,000 public water providers across the country.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 5, 2024 | Daily Report Online
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that the EPA's registration of Roundup did not carry the "force of law" that preempted Georgia plaintiff John Carson's claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
December 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online
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
December 18, 2023 | The Recorder
At a Monday hearing, U.S. District Judge William Orrick, in the Northern District of California, allowed up to $150 million in attorney fees to move forward but questioned the lack of diversity among the 62 plaintiffs firms in the Juul multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 15, 2023 | Daily Report Online
OptumRx, a pharmacy benefit manager facing trials over its role in the opioid crisis, has moved to disqualify Motley Rice, citing alleged ethical violations tied to confidential information the law firm received through government subpoenas.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 13, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Dr. Cristian Tomasetti, a general causation expert for Monsanto in numerous Roundup trials, was questioned on Tuesday at a "Daubert" hearing before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
November 28, 2023 | The Recorder
The dispute is between a proposed leadership team and lawyers at four firms spearheading the California state court cases against Uber, particularly involving William Levin and Rachel Abrams, a former partner at San Francisco's Levin Simes.
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
November 20, 2023 | Law.com
Jay Utley and Bart Rankin, of Dallas-based Forrest Weldon Law Group, represented three plaintiffs diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Roundup trial—and their first mass tort case.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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