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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 30, 2020 | Litigation Daily
Bayer also called the jury's $250 million in punitive damages excessive, unconstitutional and "the result of passion and prejudice," with statements comparing Monsanto "with violent criminals" and disclosing the company's net worth.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 27, 2020 | Litigation Daily
As class actions over COVID-19 already hit court dockets, lawyers expect to see more lawsuits over price gouging and health claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 25, 2020 | Litigation Daily
A federal judge has dismissed a legal malpractice lawsuit against six law firms in New Jersey and Texas accused of using invalid retainer agreements to charge excessive contingency fees for thousands of clients suing over transvaginal mesh devices. The firms included Nagel Rice and the Potts Law Firm.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 19, 2020 | Law.com
The trial, originally scheduled for May 4, comes in a case brought by the parents of Maia Rodriguez, alleging their daughter was born in 2004 with heart defects due to her mother's use of Zofran during pregnancy. The trial would have been the first in more than 450 lawsuits filed against GlaxoSmithKline.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 17, 2020 | The Recorder
Lawyers for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman, in a brief filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, defended the jury's award while challenging U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's reduction of $75 million in punitive damages to $20 million.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 17, 2020 | Litigation Daily
A couple in West Virginia filed a lawsuit to stop foreclosures in the state amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 16, 2020 | Litigation Daily
The lawsuit, brought on behalf of a Missouri couple who were passengers on the Grand Princess, alleges gross negligence over the cruise line's "lackadaisical approach" to ensuring the safety of its passengers of the ship, quarantined off the coast of California. The suit is the first to be filed by a firm other than Chalik & Chalik Injury Lawyers, which filed four similar cases last week.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 11, 2020 | Litigation Daily
"This change is not warranted by the Supreme Court's decision in Bristol-Myers," wrote the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, reversing dismissal of a class action based on Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California. Wednesday's ruling comes one day after the D.C. Circuit dodged the same question in a similar case.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 9, 2020 | Litigation Daily
In a March 5 order, a federal judge approved a special master's report allocating fees and costs to more than 40 law firms. More than 75% of the amount will go to the five firms on the fee committee. Mark Lanier, whose firm is one of them, said "many firms abandoned the litigation."
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 6, 2020 | Litigation Daily
DuPont's lawyers have moved for a mistrial, insisting that a holdout juror questioned by the judge had "tears in her eyes" prior to the verdict for an Ohio couple suing over chemical C8 dumped in the Ohio River. A lawyer for the plaintiffs, and the judge, have disagreed.
By Amanda Bronstad
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