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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.
October 8, 2020 | Litigation Daily
Apple and several objectors insist that an attorney fee request amounting to 28.3% of the $310 million settlement is excessive.
By Amanda Bronstad
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September 28, 2020 | Litigation Daily
The case, in Alameda County Superior Court in California, lasted 36 days and was the first all-virtual jury trial in the nation.
By Amanda Bronstad
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August 27, 2020 | Litigation Daily
"What I am concerned about is that Monsanto may be manipulating this litigation process to its advantage somehow," said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who oversees the Roundup MDL. He gave lawyers until Sept. 24 but said he might lift a stay on litigation and set cases for trial.
By Amanda Bronstad
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July 27, 2020 | Litigation Daily
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers refused to grant summary judgment based on 3M's government contractor defense in the first substantive ruling to come out of the multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad
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July 8, 2020 | Litigation Daily
The notice of withdrawal came two days after Judge Chhabria said he was likely to deny approval of the settlement, which Bayer reached last month to cap subsidiary Monsanto's liability over future Roundup claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
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July 6, 2020 | Litigation Daily
According to Law.com research, women made up 40% of lawyers leading four or more MDLs created from 2016 to 2019. Although most of the top firms remain the same, some have spread out appointments to several lawyers, including women. "These are badass attorneys who are also women," said Mike Morgan, of Morgan & Morgan.
By Amanda Bronstad
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July 6, 2020 | Litigation Daily
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said in a Monday order that he was "skeptical of the propriety and fairness of the proposed settlement, and is tentatively inclined to deny" it.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 24, 2020 | Litigation Daily
On Wednesday, Bayer announced the agreements, which resolve 75% of an estimated 125,000 Roundup claims, some of which haven't been filed in court. Bayer also agreed to resolve lawsuits over its dicamba herbicide and PCB water contamination.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 23, 2020 | Litigation Daily
A Missouri appeals court has reduced a $4.7 billion talcum powder verdict to $2.1 billion but refused to toss punitive damages altogether, concluding that the evidence at trial showed Johnson & Johnson's conduct was "outrageous because of evil motive or reckless indifference."
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 19, 2020 | Litigation Daily
Nicholas Coulson, of Liddle & Dubin, who claims to have 12 of the 38 class actions filed against airlines over their alleged failure to provide passenger refunds, is the latest attorney to ask the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to coordinate cases relating to COVID-19.
By Amanda Bronstad
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