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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 26, 2023 | Law.com
Starting on Tuesday, U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan will hear four days of arguments and testimony on whether to dismiss the second Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 23, 2023 | Law.com
3M's $12.5 billion deal to resolve lawsuits brought by hundreds of water providers is one of the largest settlements to date involving contaminated drinking water, but it's a fraction of its legal liability involving 'forever chemicals.'
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 22, 2023 | Law.com
"This historic settlement is the largest amount ever paid by a single company to resolve claims involving contaminated drinking water and provides compensation critical to protecting our nation's drinking water supplies and upgrading our water treatment infrastructure to deal with this new threat," said Paul Napoli, a partner at Napoli Shkolnik and co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
June 22, 2023 | The Recorder
Co-lead class counsel Derek Loeser and Lesley Weaver defended their fee request: 'This was a hard-fought litigation over five years that yielded the largest privacy class action recovery to date and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a class action.'
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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 21, 2023 | Daily Report Online
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 21, 2023 | Law.com
"Judges are more aware of the importance of experience over title," said Patrick Luff of the Luff Law Firm.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
June 20, 2023 | The Recorder
The $25 million, sent last week to bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, comes from attorney fees owed to the Girardi Keese estate from the $1.8 billion settlement over the 2015 gas leak in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 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 14, 2023 | Law.com
A jury in Oregon came back with nearly $18 million in punitive damages to a $72 million verdict it awarded on June 9 to 17 named plaintiffs in a class action over wildfires in 2020.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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