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Amanda Bronstad

Amanda Bronstad

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.

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August 08, 2016 | National Law Journal

Expert Predicts Most Gun-Defect Claimants Will Be Shut Out in Remington Class Action

A prominent class notice expert has warned a federal judge that the vast majority of the more than 7.5 million gun owners that could be part of a settlement over defective Remington rifles still won't know about it or be convinced to make claims.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

August 01, 2016 | National Law Journal

Expert Predicts Most Gun-Defect Claimants Will Be Shut Out in Remington Class Action

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

July 29, 2016 | National Law Journal

Sanctions Sought in Row Over CrossFit Trademark

A California couple that ran one of the first CrossFit programs for more than a decade has asked a federal judge to sanction the fitness company and its lawyers for filing a frivolous trademark infringement suit.

By Amanda Bronstad

9 minute read

July 26, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Lawyers Restart GM Ignition Switch Litigation

By Amanda Bronstad

11 minute read

July 18, 2016 | National Law Journal

Multidistrict Litigation Panel's Increasing Denials Reflect Heightened Scrutiny

A federal judiciary panel last year rejected a record number of requests to coordinate multidistrict litigation, adding a new level of scrutiny on attorneys who petition to get large numbers of cases across the country combined under the pretrial procedure.

By Amanda Bronstad

12 minute read

June 27, 2016 | National Law Journal

How One Silicon Valley Firm Beat the Odds and Made Big Gains

Bay Area-based firm cites work in venture funding deals behind 26 percent rise in head count.

By Amanda Bronstad

25 minute read

June 23, 2016 | National Law Journal

Page and Plant's Win in 'Stairway to Heaven' Case Seen as Bolstering Songwriters' Creative Rights

Thursday's verdict for Led Zeppelin in the copyright trial over the 1971 hit song “Stairway to Heaven” reaffirms the creative rights of songwriters while demonstrating the difficulties in pursuing infringement over sheet music, according to legal experts following the case.

By Amanda Bronstad

10 minute read

June 22, 2016 | National Law Journal

No Daubert, No Gatekeeper?: Missouri Mass Tort Verdicts Linked to Handling of Science Evidence

When a St. Louis courthouse was the venue where three juries issued substantial verdicts this year against Johnson & Johnson and Monsanto Co., it came as little surprise to the defense bar, which has long complained about the standards under which Missouri's courts admit scientific evidence.

By Amanda Bronstad

21 minute read

June 17, 2016 | National Law Journal

Defense Verdict Reached in Class Action Over Homeopathic Medicine

Defense verdict in a class action at the Los Angeles-based Central District of California federal court over the labeling of a homeopathic flu remedy.

By Amanda Bronstad

8 minute read

June 16, 2016 | Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: David Dahlquist of Winston & Strawn and J. Robert Robertson of Hogan Lovells

David Dahlquist and J. Robert Robertson handed the Federal Trade Commission a rare loss in a hospital merger case.

By Amanda Bronstad

16 minute read