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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 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
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
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