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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.
February 4, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin ordered a 5 percent hold-back on settlements over the objections of three law firms.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
January 22, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $120 million to attorneys general in 46 states, and Washington, D.C., to resolve marketing claims brought over its hip implants.
By Amanda Bronstad
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January 11, 2019 | Law.com
Of the 28 judges appointed by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, seven were minority judges—a record number.
By Amanda Bronstad
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December 20, 2018 | Law.com
In the most substantial ruling to come out of the litigation over opioids, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster adopted most of a magistrate judge's Oct. 5 report and recommendation allowing RICO and public nuisance claims to go forward against opioid companies.
By Amanda Bronstad
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December 4, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has once again made the American Tort Reform Association's annual “Judicial Hellholes” list, while the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has been placed on the watch list for prospective hellholes.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 2, 2018 | Law.com
Johnson & Johnson has filed motions to toss the verdict, accusing the plaintiffs' lawyer, Mark Lanier, of referencing stillborn babies in his opening statement and showing a drawing of a woman pushed over a ledge into ovarian cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 25, 2018 | Law.com
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform released the report on Wednesday at its annual summit, along with a white paper that called on Congress to reform securities laws.
By Amanda Bronstad
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October 9, 2018 | Law.com
U.S. Magistrate Judge David Ruiz on Oct. 5 allowed most of the claims in a key case in a massive MDL against opioid companies to go forward, concluding that the complaint was far from a “fishing expedition.”
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 2, 2018 | National Law Journal
The lawsuits come on the heels of a $670.7 million settlement with DuPont and Chemours Co. last year involving an MDL over a related chemical that has been linked to cancer and hypertension in pregnant women and other illnesses.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
September 7, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal
The only class action brought on behalf of consumers of Johnson & Johnson's baby powder was focused on the lack of warning labels, but the appeals court said the class had no standing.
By Amanda Bronstad
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