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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.
July 8, 2020 | The Recorder
The notice of withdrawal came two days after a federal judge said he was likely to deny approval of the settlement, which Bayer reached last month to cap subsidiary Monsanto's liability over future Roundup claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 30, 2020 | Law.com
The class action settlement, which faces judicial scrutiny and the potential that objectors could unravel the deal, includes a controversial science panel that some lawyers criticized. The deal also provides up to $150 million in attorney fees.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 23, 2020 | Law.com
A Missouri appeals court has reduced a $4.7 billion talcum powder verdict to $2.1 billion but refused to toss punitive damages altogether, concluding that the evidence at trial showed Johnson & Johnson's conduct was "outrageous because of evil motive or reckless indifference."
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 15, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
In a footnote, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Clark wrote, "the court cautions that plaintiff's allegations regarding defendant's conduct, if true, demonstrate behavior unbecoming of litigants," in a decision that affects more than a dozen lawsuits involving medical technology firm Stryker Orthopaedics.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 10, 2020 | Law.com
Judges in dozens of rulings in multidistrict litigation have failed to follow Rule 702 in allowing expert testimony into trials that should not have been admissible, wrote three defense lawyers in a Tuesday letter to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, which is reviewing possible amendments.
By Amanda Bronstad
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June 1, 2020 | Law.com
Lex Machina's 2020 Product Liability Litigation Report, released Monday, found the top corporate defendant hit with product liability cases was Johnson & Johnson, which totaled 70,924 lawsuits from 2015 to 2019, many from multidistrict litigation over its baby powder and blood thinner Xarelto.
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 22, 2020 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson attributed its decision this week to discontinue sales of talc-based baby powder to COVID-19 and declining demand, but lawyers and law professors point instead to an April 27 ruling allowing plaintiffs' experts to testify in trials.
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 19, 2020 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson said it would "vigorously defend" the products in court. Plaintiffs attorney Chris Placitella, who is liaison counsel in the talc multidistrict litigation, said "we look forward to meeting them there as we continue to pursue justice for our clients."
By Amanda Bronstad
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May 11, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
Addressing one of the first substantive decisions in the Risperdal litigation in California, the Second District Court of Appeal reversed summary judgment as to one of the federal preemption arguments raised by the plaintiffs, reinstating potentially hundreds of lawsuits. The court upheld the ruling as to two separate federal preemption arguments.
By Amanda Bronstad
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April 27, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, who is overseeing the talcum powder multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson, found that five plaintiffs' experts, two of whom have testified before Congress on talcum powder safety, could appear before juries. The ruling is the first in which a federal judge has ruled on the scientific evidence in talc trials.
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