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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.
November 10, 2017 | National Law Journal
Plaintiffs who brought thousands of lawsuits over IVC, or inferior vena cava, filters got off to a rough start on Thursday when a federal jury came out with a defense verdict in the first trial over the medical implants.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 2, 2017 | National Law Journal
In just three sentences, a judge in Colorado shot down an unpaid wage settlement, stating that “the parties and counsel should be ashamed of themselves for asking a federal court to approve this settlement.”
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 30, 2017 | National Law Journal
Lawyers filing dozens of lawsuits over the opioid crisis have taken a page out of the Big Tobacco playbook—but not the whole book.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 24, 2017 | National Law Journal
A judge's ruling tossing a record $417 million verdict in California last week could spell trouble for attorneys handling cases for plaintiffs in talc products liability litigation—and not just because of the massive size of the rejected award.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 20, 2017 | The Recorder
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has tossed a record $417 million talcum powder verdict after finding “serious misconduct” on the part of the…
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 20, 2017 | The Recorder
A dismissed class action over flushable wipes is alive again after a federal appeals court ruled in a matter of first impression that the plaintiff…
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 19, 2017 | Litigation Daily
In the nationwide litigation over talcum powder, Johnson & Johnson turned to Thomas Weaver of St. Louis-based Armstrong Teasdale to overturn a…
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 31, 2017 | Litigation Daily
Floyd Mayweather's defeat over Conor McGregor wasn't the only boxing win worth talking about this past week—lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers scored a total knockout of dozens of class actions brought over a 2015 bout dubbed the “Fight of the Century.”
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 24, 2017 | Litigation Daily
A talcum powder trial in Los Angeles ended with a bang on Monday--–a $417 million bang, to be exact. But jurors almost didn't hear the case at all.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
July 7, 2017 | The Recorder
When class members are owed a few pennies from a settlement, how much should you bother trying to make sure they get paid? That's the question before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a petition to reverse a $5.5 million settlement with Google Inc. over privacy claims that gives money to the plaintiffs' attorneys and six nonprofit organizations but nothing to the class. On Wednesday, attorneys general from 11 states filed an amicus brief insisting that the Delaware judge who approved the settlement didn't go far enough in attempting to put class members above the use of cy pres, a controversial practice used to distributed unclaimed funds in a settlement to third parties.
By Amanda Bronstad
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