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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.
June 24, 2021 | The Recorder
In a tentative order Thursday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Kirk Nakamura ordered attorneys David Yeremian and Jason Rothman to each pay $10,000 within 10 days. At issue was a declaration submitted in support of attorney fees stating that Rothman worked 357 hours, but added, "I actually worked 185.38 so the above hours are exaggerated to help us meet the lodestar but not seeming too far out of line."
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 24, 2021 | The Recorder
As courts begin reopening, judges and attorneys have raised the question of whether jurors' vaccine status could determine whether they serve on a jury. "It's kind of a hotly debated question, and different districts will handle it differently," said Dana Sabraw, chief judge of California's Southern District, in a State of the Court address earlier this year to the San Diego County Bar Association.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
June 21, 2021 | The Recorder
In a Monday order, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria significantly scaled back the request, originally estimated to give $800 million to lead counsel in the Roundup multidistrict litigation. He also found the common fund doctrine inapplicable in the cases and called on a federal rules committee to consider new methods to compensate lead counsel in MDLs.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 21, 2021 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers imposed a $10,000 sanction on one attorney and $2,000 sanction against another defense lawyer. "Today these proceedings and the integrity of the court were degraded, they were disrespected by the willful violation of my orders by 3M's counsel," the judge said June 18, hours before a jury issued a $1.7 million verdict, according to a transcript.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 17, 2021 | The Recorder
Park, a Morrison & Foerster partner in San Diego who defends companies in product liability matters and consumer class actions, steered clients through the ever-changing rules of the pandemic. Going forward, she sees more regulation of "connected products," and a growing number of environmental contamination lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 17, 2021 | Law.com
Lawsuits against China over the pandemic have turned to diplomatic channels to send service of process to the Chinese government, which has refused to respond on immunity grounds. But not all the defendants are governmental entities, according to the lawsuits, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology now at the center of a renewed U.S. intelligence investigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
June 3, 2021 | The Recorder
The lawsuits, which allege that the apps, available on the Google Play Store, constitute unlawful gambling because they operate like slots, poker, blackjack and bingo, have been sent to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, who is overseeing similar lawsuits against Apple.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
May 28, 2021 | The Recorder
The five-point plan, which includes a potential claims administration process led by famed mediator Ken Feinberg, would move on from the class action in U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria's court, where a deal has been rejected.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
May 27, 2021 | Law.com
Federal judges are asking more questions prior to granting preliminary approval of class action settlements, partly due to 2018 rules changes, but also as lawyers have become more creative in how they structure such agreements. One example: The $2 billion Roundup settlement that a judge rejected this week.
By Amanda Bronstad
8 minute read
May 26, 2021 | The Recorder
In a six-page order on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California flagged many of the same concerns he raised at a lengthy hearing last week. "In sum, the settlement proposed by these attorneys would accomplish a lot for Monsanto," he wrote.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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