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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.
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 22, 2023 | New York Law Journal
U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, denied a demand from defendants to disclose of 33 individuals in plaintiff's expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline's 2019 report, used in talc cases nationwide to link cosmetic talc to mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
May 10, 2023 | Law.com
The plaintiff, Anthony Hernandez Valadez, is 24 years old and alleges Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused his diagnosis of a pericardial mesothelioma, a terminal cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
April 27, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, is set to decide whether plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline must disclose the 33 individuals in her 2019 article, one of the first to link cosmetic talcum powder to mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
April 21, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, in New York, refused on Thursday to dismiss 72 lawsuits alleging taking Tylenol while pregnant increases the risks of children developing autism or ADHD.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
March 31, 2023 | New York Law Journal
On Tuesday, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules recommended the first rule to govern multidistrict litigation. Rule 16.1 now goes to a standing committee, which could hear public comments in August.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 24, 2023 | Law.com
At least two petitions for a writ of certiorari are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court over incentive awards, which compensate class representatives for their added time and work.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
March 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal
One proposed leadership team has 37 lawyers, many from national firms, while another group, about half that size, calls itself "Team Ohio."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
"This case is an example of a wealthy client (Facebook) and its high-powered law firm (Gibson Dunn) using delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments to make litigation unfairly difficult and expensive for their opponents," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
January 10, 2023 | Law.com
A New York man brought a proposed class action on behalf of participants of DraftKings' NFL Showdown and Flash Draft contests who didn't get their winnings from the game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
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