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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.
August 16, 2021 | The Recorder
The petition also challenges U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's admission of plaintiffs' experts in the underlying case, which is the only federal Roundup verdict and the first bellwether case from among 3,800 cases in multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of California.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
August 11, 2021 | The Recorder
Tuesday's order by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred 19 lawsuits to Senior Judge P. Kevin Castel, in New York's Southern District, overruling significant opposition by most of the lawyers. The cases include several in California and the Texas attorney general's lawsuit against Google, which involves 13 other states and Puerto Rico.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 10, 2021 | The Recorder
Plaintiffs lawyers alleging that casino-style apps on Facebook, Google and Apple violate state gambling laws had proposed a leadership team in charge of all three dockets.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
August 9, 2021 | The Recorder
A bankruptcy trustee's request to send the NFL concussion cases to Goldberg, Persky & White, and 52 transvaginal mesh cases to Nadrich & Cohen and The Oshman Firm, is likely to go forward after Erika Girardi, the estranged wife of Tom Girardi, dropped her objection on Monday.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
July 30, 2021 | Law.com
Many courts were already urging or mandating pretrial mediations, but as the pandemic shutdown lifts lawyers are getting a clear message: "settle it, try it or dismiss it."
By Greg Land | Amanda Bronstad
16 minute read
July 30, 2021 | Law.com
Friday's defense verdict comes four days after an Illinois judge issued a contempt order against Johnson & Johnson because its corporate witness, who testified in the trial, failed to appear for cross-examination.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 30, 2021 | The Recorder
Sierra Elizabeth, a Los Angeles partner at Kirkland & Ellis, handled back-to-back jury trials this summer in Florida and California, regions with very different COVID-19 protocols. "If they tell me that's the only way to try cases, and put a mask on, I'll do it," she said.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
July 29, 2021 | Law.com
At the first hearing in the multidistrict litigation over its alleged role in the opioid crisis, the global consulting firm's lawyer on Thursday insisted that more than half the 50 lawsuits are subject to a $573 million multistate settlement reached earlier this year.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 27, 2021 | Law.com
Attorney Ben Crump teamed up with New York's Napoli Shkolnik to file a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the National Council of Negro Women alleging that Johnson & Johnson marketed its baby powder to Black women, many of whom died of ovarian cancer.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
July 26, 2021 | Law.com
Tom Girardi and his firm's former bookkeeper are anticipated to plead the Fifth Amendment at an upcoming contempt hearing involving two former partners at Girardi Keese, according to lawyers at a telephonic hearing Monday. A federal judge in Chicago is planning a Sept. 13 hearing to determine whether former partners Keith Griffin and David Lira should be held in contempt over $2 million in missing client settlement funds involving the Lion Air crash litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
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