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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 21, 2022 | Law.com
Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ensures that court battles will continue over Monsanto's Roundup, which lawsuits contend causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 15, 2022 | The Recorder
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is already mulling possible sanctions against Facebook's lawyers, excoriated the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team again for their conduct during a May 5 deposition. "We are doing our best," Gibson Dunn partner Rosemarie Ring said at a June 9 hearing. "That is not doing your best," Chhabria interrupted.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 13, 2022 | Law.com
The Official Committee of Talc Claimants, or TCC, sought to lift U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Michael Kaplan's order granting a preliminary injunction on all 38,000 talcum powder cases. A hearing is Tuesday.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
June 2, 2022 | Law.com
Plaintiffs lawyers at Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman filed a motion to coordinate more than 30 lawsuits over Merck's Gardasil vaccine but said there could be more, citing 39 claims that went through the Vaccine Court claims process and 52 others that are pending. Michael Baum, of Baum Hedlund, called Merck's criticism a "false straw man argument."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
May 31, 2022 | Law.com
More than 620 cities and counties are challenging U.S. District Judge Dan Polster's order that requires 7.5% of their opioid settlements go toward attorney fees for lead plaintiffs' counsel in the multidistrict litigation.
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
May 27, 2022 | Law.com
Thursday's order, by U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, in Chicago, followed a fight between two competing lawyer teams who traded barbs over diversity and size.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
May 24, 2022 | The Recorder
Tuesday's settlement is the latest involving Dr. James Heaps, the former campus gynecologist. Including prior settlements, UCLA has agreed to pay a total of nearly $700 million to resolve sexual abuse lawsuits.
By Amanda Bronstad
2 minute read
May 23, 2022 | Law.com
Citing "grave concern," 54 agricultural groups wrote a letter to Biden to withdraw U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar's amicus brief filed earlier this month in a petition Bayer filed before the U.S. Supreme Court involving a Roundup verdict.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 23, 2022 | The Recorder
Friday's verdict, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is one of the largest in an asbestos case since courts reopened last year.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 19, 2022 | The Recorder
Plaintiff's lawyers preferred a vaccinated jury, but defense lawyers were firmly opposed to the idea. U.S. District Judge William Orrick, who previously told lawyers "we'll just have everybody come in" if they didn't reach an agreement, issued an order on Wednesday, saying: "I meant what I said."
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
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