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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.
October 27, 2020 | Law.com
Teva and affiliated companies are fighting an attempt to create multidistrict litigation for more than 55 lawsuits brought over the Paragard IUD, a birth control device. "This is about attorney advertising and an uptick in that advertising promoted by movant's counsel," they wrote in a Friday court filing.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 15, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal
Lawyers from several prominent firms have filed 80 lawsuits that allege Elmiron, used to treat a chronic bladder infection called interstitial cystitis, causes eye problems. Anticipating hundreds more cases, they are dueling over whether to coordinate an MDL in Pennsylvania before U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone or U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti in New Jersey, home to defendant Johnson & Johnson's Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 6, 2020 | Law.com
The number of new lawsuits caused by COVID-19 dipped in August to 660, according to data released Tuesday by the Silicon Valley-based litigation research firm Lex Machina, but may just be the end of the "first wave" of cases.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
October 5, 2020 | Law.com
Several judges have come out with the first rulings from among hundreds of class actions seeking refunds for university and college tuition and fees tied to the COVID-19 shutdowns. Most of them have refused to dismiss claims of breach of contract.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
September 30, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
On Monday, a federal judge appointed lawyers to lead the privacy class actions against TikTok who previously accused each other of mishandling the litigation. They include co-lead counsel Ekwan Rhow of Bird Marella and Katrina Carroll of Carlson Lynch.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
September 17, 2020 | Law.com
An escalating rift between two groups of lawyers, one led by Katrina Carroll of Carlson Lynch and the other by Ekwan Rhow of Bird Marella, could unravel a confidential class action settlement that TikTok plans to file next month in court.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 17, 2020 | Law.com
Data gathered by Law.com shows very little progress in ethnic diversity of MDL leadership teams: only 5% of appointments, on average, went to lawyers who identified as "nonwhite" in MDLs created from 2016 through 2019.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
August 5, 2020 | Law.com
In its first orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation refused on Wednesday to coordinate cases brought against banks over their handling of COVID-19 relief loans to small businesses, citing the small number of cases and varied experiences of the plaintiff applicants.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
May 11, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
The co-leads of the Zantac MDL include Tracy Finken Magnotta of Anapol Weiss in Philadelphia.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
April 27, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer
Efforts to coordinate business-interruption lawsuits against insurance firms focus on 16 cases so far filed in federal courts against eight insurance firms, but Richard Golomb, of Golomb & Honik, predicts an "avalanche of cases."
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
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