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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.
November 11, 2021 | The Recorder
The trustee replaced Richards, a Beverly Hills attorney, two days after he was accused of conducting a "bizarre shakedown" to make way for a settlement with Tom Girardi's estranged wife, Erika Girardi.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
November 10, 2021 | The Recorder
A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ordered that all talcum powder lawsuits be stayed for 60 days, pending transfer of the Chapter 11 filing of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management from North Carolina to New Jersey.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
November 9, 2021 | The Recorder
In a Tuesday brief, Edelson PC claims Ronald Richards, special counsel to the Girardi Keese bankruptcy trustee, is attempting to thwart its embezzlement lawsuit in order to strike a deal with Tom Girardi's estranged wife, Erika Girardi.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
November 3, 2021 | The Recorder
Tom Girardi's estranged wife, Erika Girardi, also threatened sanctions against the Girardi Keese trustee for "inflammatory, malicious, and reckless" allegations that she received $25 million in fraudulent transfers from her husband's firm.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
November 2, 2021 | The Recorder
In a tentative decision Monday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson found that the plaintiffs, which are three large California counties and the city of Oakland, failed to differentiate between legitimate uses of opioids, which are prescription painkillers, and the illegal activities that led to addictions and overdoses.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
October 28, 2021 | The Recorder
Kimberly Branscome and Jay Bhimani, both partners in Dechert's Los Angeles office, filed an opening brief on Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, seeking to overturn U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers' sanctions against them in an earplug trial earlier this year.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
October 27, 2021 | The Recorder
Joseph Satterley, of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood in Oakland, said Johnson and Johnson "cherry-picked" a court in North Carolina, which did not pay off.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
October 26, 2021 | Law.com
An alternate juror who sat through a lengthy talcum powder trial last month said there was a "definite need" for Johnson & Johnson to put a warning label on its baby powder but not enough evidence to convince her that the product caused plaintiffs to get ovarian cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
October 21, 2021 | Law.com
Some lawyers who have handled trials this year say the COVID-19 pandemic has clouded how jurors perceive scientific and medical testimony, but others aren't convinced that juries have changed that much. More apparent, lawyers say, is that the political polarization surrounding the pandemic has seeped into the jury pool.
By Amanda Bronstad | Scott Graham | Jasmine Floyd
13 minute read
October 15, 2021 | Law.com
Thursday's filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in North Carolina's Western District lists the top 30 plaintiffs firms with talc claims against Johnson & Johnson. Some called the filing a "fraudulent abuse of the bankruptcy system" and "corporate fraud."
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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