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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.
December 8, 2020 | New York Law Journal
Pennsylvania kept its top ranking on the 2020-21 list, released on Tuesday by the American Tort Reform Association. The COVID-19 pandemic also made an appearance, both as a legislative barricade and as the cause of a new raft of lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 24, 2020 | Law.com
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation is set to hear oral arguments Dec. 3 on whether to coordinate business interruption cases against Erie Insurance, or lawsuits against travel insurer Generali tied to canceled Vrbo bookings.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 20, 2020 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California appointed Tina Wolfson, of Ahdoot & Wolfson, and Tiasha Palikovic, of Wittels McInturff Palikovic, as interim class counsel for about half a dozen class actions, citing their legal strategy and diversity.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 13, 2020 | New York Law Journal
William Brewer, the NRA's lawyer, suggested that the suit by state Attorney General Letitia James aimed at dissolving the 149-year-old gun-rights group, although not in federal court, is required to be part of federal multidistrict litigation. He wants the matter to be litigated in the Northern District of Texas.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 12, 2020 | New York Law Journal
The president of The National Bar Association, Tricia "CK" Hoffler, filed a new class action Thursday against Amazon alleging racial discrimination in its handling of COVID-19 precautions for its employees. She represents Christian Smalls, whose highly publicized firing followed a worker protest over conditions at the Staten Island fulfillment center.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 6, 2020 | Law.com
Hurricanes delayed the New Orleans trial, which featured masks, social distancing and plexiglass shields to prevent COVID-19. The case was among the first held in person since the pandemic shut courthouse doors in March.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 5, 2020 | Law.com
The proposal, which still has to be approved by thousands of cities and counties, may have overcome a major hurdle in the negotiations for a global opioid settlement: legal fees. The deal involves three major pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
September 10, 2020 | New York Law Journal
Clearview AI, which uses facial recognition technology to provide photographic information to law enforcement, is asking the JPML to coordinate nearly a dozen privacy class actions after lawyers failed to consolidate them before judges in New York and Illinois, home to the strictest biometrics law in the country.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 17, 2020 | Law.com
Data gathered by Law.com shows very little progress in ethnic diversity of MDL leadership teams: only 5% of appointments, on average, went to lawyers who identified as "nonwhite" in MDLs created from 2016 through 2019.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 6, 2020 | National Law Journal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle's decision, finding that the judge "got it just right."
By Jacqueline Thomsen | Amanda Bronstad
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