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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.
June 22, 2023 | Law.com
In motions filed this week, Southwest Airlines cited the "first-to-file" rule in arguing that three California class actions should be dismissed or transferred to Louisiana, where one lawsuit is pending.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Law.com
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
June 12, 2023 | Law.com
On Friday, the jury reached its verdict, which Mulnomah County Circuit Court Judge Steffan Alexander read on Monday. The trial moves to a second phase of punitive damages, which could reach $15 billion when including the entire class.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 9, 2023 | Law.com
In a swift blow to 3M, U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Jeffrey Graham, in Indianapolis, dismissed the Chapter 11 case of its subsidiary Aearo Technologies on Friday. "These cases were and are a litigation management tactic and not a rehabilitative effort," Graham wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 9, 2023 | Law.com
The deal, announced on Friday by the state of New Mexico's outside counsel Baron & Budd, is one of the largest opioid settlements to date involving one state and a single defendant.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 7, 2023 | The Recorder
The trustee of the Girardi Keese bankruptcy estate continues to pursue an investigation of California Attorney Lending II's owner, while Edelson alerted a federal judge to a former Girardi consultant's "suspicious and potentially improper" text message.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 5, 2023 | Daily Business Review
"A significant part of FTX's conduct allegedly emanated from this district, where it had its U.S. headquarters before filing for bankruptcy," the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled.
By Michael A. Mora | Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 2, 2023 | Law.com
DuPont agreed to a $1.185 billion settlement involving toxic chemicals that includes a case brought by the city of Stuart, Florida, that begins trial on Monday. 3M remains in that trial, the first bellwether in multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foams.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
May 26, 2023 | Law.com
On Thursday, lawyers in the litigation over collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX argued to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation whether to coordinate all the cases, which name banks, financiers, promoters and others.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 24, 2023 | Law.com
A jury in Clayton, Missouri, issued its defense verdict late Tuesday after about five hours of deliberations.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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