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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 28, 2024 | The Recorder
San Diego County Superior Court Judge Kevin Enright on Monday denied Monsanto's posttrial motions and upheld the Oct. 31 verdict, but found the punitive damages were unconstitutional.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 26, 2024 | Law.com
The wide range of Roundup verdicts, from defense wins for Monsanto to a $2.25 billion award, could be due to what jurors hear at trial about the EPA and foreign regulatory agencies.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
February 23, 2024 | The Recorder
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is overseeing most of the 35 lawsuits against 23andMe in the Northern District of California, said he planned to wait until the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decides next month whether to coordinate the cases into multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 16, 2024 | Law.com
The fee committee, which is comprised of the three lead plaintiffs' firms in the Roundup multidistrict litigation, allocated 81% to themselves, but three firms objected to their allocations.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 12, 2024 | The Recorder
At least five plaintiffs' firms, including Wisner Baum, which won verdicts of $289 million and $2 billion in 2018 and 2019, are objecting to the allocation of common benefit fees in the Roundup multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 8, 2024 | Law.com
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Kirkland & Ellis and other Big Law firms have appeared in court for shale oil producers accused of conspiring to fix gas prices since early 2021.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 2, 2024 | The Recorder
At a Feb. 2 telephonic hearing, Girardi's Illinois lawyer, Seema Ahmad, asked U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland, of the Northern District of Illinois, to allow her to determine whether her client is mentally competent to stand trial.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 31, 2024 | Law.com
Edelson's Rafey Balabanian, in a Jan. 26 motion to appoint him as lead counsel, said a 'rudderless crowd of firms' was attempting to mediate the cases before leadership had been decided and without further investigation of the facts.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 29, 2024 | Law.com
At a Friday hearing, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she planned to reject social media's request to grant interlocutory appeal of her Nov. 14 ruling refusing to dismiss addiction claims.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 17, 2024 | Law.com
A lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleged that both Alaska Airlines and Boeing were negligent for a defective door plug that blew out during a Jan. 5 flight, leaving a gaping hole in the 737-9 Max aircraft.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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