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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 22, 2023 | Law.com
In motions filed this week, Southwest Airlines cited the "first-to-file" rule in arguing that three California class actions should be dismissed or transferred to Louisiana, where one lawsuit is pending.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 20, 2023 | The Recorder
The $25 million, sent last week to bankruptcy trustee Elissa Miller, comes from attorney fees owed to the Girardi Keese estate from the $1.8 billion settlement over the 2015 gas leak in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles.
By Amanda Bronstad
3 minute read
June 20, 2023 | Law.com
In multidistrict litigation dockets created in 2022, about 13% of plaintiffs lawyers appointed to leadership posts were not white, according to Law.com's exclusive data. That's down from the 16% in 2021, and 14% in 2020, but up from 2016 to 2019, when white attorneys dominated with 95% of appointments.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
June 12, 2023 | Law.com
On Friday, the jury reached its verdict, which Mulnomah County Circuit Court Judge Steffan Alexander read on Monday. The trial moves to a second phase of punitive damages, which could reach $15 billion when including the entire class.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
June 7, 2023 | The Recorder
The trustee of the Girardi Keese bankruptcy estate continues to pursue an investigation of California Attorney Lending II's owner, while Edelson alerted a federal judge to a former Girardi consultant's "suspicious and potentially improper" text message.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 5, 2023 | Law.com
Digital payment apps and chatbots are changing the administration of class action settlements.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
June 5, 2023 | Daily Business Review
"A significant part of FTX's conduct allegedly emanated from this district, where it had its U.S. headquarters before filing for bankruptcy," the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ruled.
By Michael A. Mora | Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 31, 2023 | The Recorder
Allison Brown, a lawyer for Johnson & Johnson, questioned the facts of the case, which is in California's Alameda County Superior Court: She noted that many of the stores where the plaintiff's mother testified she bought its baby powder were more than 100 miles from her house.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 26, 2023 | Law.com
On Thursday, lawyers in the litigation over collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX argued to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation whether to coordinate all the cases, which name banks, financiers, promoters and others.
By Amanda Bronstad
4 minute read
May 18, 2023 | Law.com
"No one really likes having a master, except a St. Bernard," said Merril Hirsh, executive director of the Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals.
By Amanda Bronstad
7 minute read
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