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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.
January 10, 2024 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, who on Jan. 2 found Girardi competent to stand trial, rejected arguments from Girardi's lawyers to push the trial into next year.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
January 9, 2024 | Law.com
A second trial over wildfires that ravaged Oregon over Labor Day 2020 began Tuesday, this time focused on economic and noneconomic damages of nine class members.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 8, 2024 | Law.com
Tom Girardi, 83, was charged on Feb. 1 with stealing at least $18 million from clients of his Los Angeles law firm, Girardi Keese, over the past decade. Others have been indicted. Here, we compiled the reporting in one place.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 5, 2024 | The Recorder
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton in Los Angeles unsealed her competency order, concluding that the arguments of Girardi's lawyers were "wholly lacking in credibility," and some evidence showed "no more than normal age-related decline."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
January 2, 2024 | Law.com
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, in the Central District of California, issued the Tuesday docket entry after three days of testimony last year in a competency hearing and a final round of briefing.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
December 29, 2023 | The Recorder
Genetic testing firm 23andMe Inc. has moved to transfer lawsuits over this year's data breach to Northern California, near its South San Francisco headquarters, citing an increase in the number of cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
December 28, 2023 | The Recorder
A jury in San Benito County Superior Court rendered a defense verdict on Dec. 22 in the latest Roundup trial, ending a streak of five plaintiffs' awards totaling more than $2 billion.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
December 21, 2023 | Law.com
With nine defense verdicts in a row, Bayer was headed well into 2023 with an unstoppable record in trials over Monsanto's Roundup. Then, the momentum stopped with five verdicts totaling more than $2 billion.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
December 18, 2023 | The Recorder
At a Monday hearing, U.S. District Judge William Orrick, in the Northern District of California, allowed up to $150 million in attorney fees to move forward but questioned the lack of diversity among the 62 plaintiffs firms in the Juul multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 14, 2023 | The Recorder
Plaintiffs' lawyers plan to ask a federal judge on Monday to approve as much as $150 million in fees tied to settlements with Juul Labs Inc. over the vaping epidemic.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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