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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.
March 2, 2023 | The Recorder
At Thursday's preliminary approval hearing in the Cambridge Analytica settlement with Facebook, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria repeatedly sparred with Corban Rhodes, an attorney for the New Mexico Attorney General's Office, who intervened this week to raise questions about the release.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
February 28, 2023 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal in Florida signed off Monday on a class action settlement over Johnson & Johnson's recalled sunscreen but criticized objector lawyer Ted Frank for holding up the deal's final approval.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 15, 2023 | The Recorder
Lead plaintiffs lawyers in the Roundup multidistrict litigation called Bayer's Feb. 8 petition before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit an "orchestrated" appeal.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 10, 2023 | Law.com
David Lira, 62, who is Tom Girardi's son-in-law, appeared virtually at a hearing in Chicago, where federal prosecutors indicted him Feb. 1 on charges of stealing $3 million from the families of airplane crash victims.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 10, 2023 | Law.com
Despite losing several appeals, Bayer petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a Roundup ruling on federal preemption.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
Christopher Kamon, who was Girardi Keese's CFO from 2004 to 2020, appeared virtually in a federal court in Chicago on Thursday for his arraignment.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
February 9, 2023 | The Recorder
"This case is an example of a wealthy client (Facebook) and its high-powered law firm (Gibson Dunn) using delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments to make litigation unfairly difficult and expensive for their opponents," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
February 8, 2023 | Law.com
At a Tuesday hearing in Los Angeles, Larry Gabriel, an attorney for Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, implored U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell to allow him to amend his complaint against the firm's lender. "This is too big of a case to be given one shot," he said.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
February 6, 2023 | The Recorder
Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Stevenson entered the plea at an arraignment hearing in downtown Los Angeles and granted a request from Tom Girardi's lawyers to file documents under seal about his "medical and mental health exam."
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
February 3, 2023 | The Recorder
Lawyers gave closing arguments on Friday at the end of a three-week trial over Musk's 2018 tweets about taking Tesla private. Defense attorney Alex Spiro told jurors the Tesla CEO wasn't some 'fire-breathing tweeting monster.'
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
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