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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.
April 12, 2022 | The Recorder
On Monday, lawyers at Gibson Dunn said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's statements about discovery sanctions were based on a "false and misleading account" by the plaintiffs' attorneys, who filed a sanctions motion last month in lawsuits against Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
April 7, 2022 | Law.com
Matt Leckman, a partner at Littlepage Booth Leckman, represents the wife of a pilot allegedly sickened from toxic cabin air, which is caused when engine fumes seep into the cabin. Trial begins on April 18 in Chicago.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
March 24, 2022 | Law.com
McKinsey & Co.'s arguments to dismiss opioid lawsuits have garnered amicus support from 11 states, including Connecticut and Texas, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Tort Reform Association.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
March 11, 2022 | Law.com
The fees and costs outlined in the $26 billion opioid deal with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals and three distributors are a mix of common benefit fees, contingency fees and payments to the states for outside counsel. One law professor said, "it's not like the lawyers are going to be impoverished."
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
March 8, 2022 | New York Law Journal
In a pair of orders on Monday, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, among other findings, upheld his decision to excuse three unvaccinated jurors from the trial, concluding there was "no doubt that trial would have been disrupted."
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
March 4, 2022 | New York Law Journal
U.S. Senior District Judge P. Kevin Castel in New York appointed clashing groups of lawyers on Thursday to lead digital advertiser lawsuits against Google and Facebook.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 25, 2022 | Law.com
"The court is not persuaded by the objecting parties' allegations of gamesmanship or inequity," the judge wrote.
By Avalon Zoppo | Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
February 6, 2022 | New York Law Journal
New York lawyers Hunter Shkolnik, of Napoli Shkolnik, and Corey Stern, of Levy & Konigsberg, served as co-liaison counsel for the individual plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
January 25, 2022 | Law.com
"It is correct that a significant portion of this class is bound by arbitration agreements that would preclude participation in this class action," said Alston & Bird's Kristy Brown, a lawyer for T-Mobile, at the first hearing in the multidistrict litigation over last year's data breach.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
January 24, 2022 | New York Law Journal
As the COVID-19 omicron variant has swept through the country in January, judges have had to grapple with whether to move forward with jury trials right now. Their reasons are as varied as the public's views about the pandemic.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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