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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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March 11, 2024 | Law.com

Motley Rice Cites ABA Ethics Opinion in Opioid Disqualification Duel

The disqualification motion comes as U.S. District Judge Dan Polster, who is overseeing the opioid multidistrict litigation, has lined up four bellwether trials against OptumRx and another pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

March 11, 2024 | Law.com

Q&A With Scott + Scott's Fatima Brizuela: How Algorithmic Pricing Changed Antitrust Law

Brizuela, who joined Scott + Scott's San Diego office last year, is involved in some of the most cutting-edge antitrust cases, suing crude oil producers over high gas prices and real estate management software provider RealPage over its algorithmic pricing.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

March 06, 2024 | The Recorder

'Barrage of Suspect Claims' Hampers Altria Class Settlement With Juul Users

At a Wednesday hearing, lawyers predicted that as many as 80% of the claims made in Altria's $45.5 million class settlement over Juul could be invalid or fraudulent.

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

March 06, 2024 | The Recorder

California Roundup Case Dismissed Midtrial, Monsanto Declares Victory

Plaintiffs lawyers on Tuesday voluntarily dismissed a Roundup case in California's Sonoma County Superior Court on the third day of trial.

By Amanda Bronstad

2 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Law.com

Another Oregon Wildfire Verdict Brings PacifiCorp's Total Damages to Over $220M

An Oregon jury on Tuesday awarded more than $29 million to nine individuals who survived three wildfires in 2020.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Mistrial Declared in First Post-Bankruptcy Ovarian Cancer Trial Over J&J Talc

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge William Thomas declared a mistrial after the jury sent him a note Tuesday afternoon that said: "We are hopelessly deadlocked with absolutely, positively, no way to resolve it."

By Amanda Bronstad

5 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Law.com

How a Plaintiffs Lawyer Armored Up for the Mass Arbitration Battle

Raphael Janove, who launched his own firm last month, said he plans to focus largely on mass arbitration to pursue consumer claims against mobile games developers.

By Amanda Bronstad

6 minute read

March 01, 2024 | Delaware Law Weekly

Roundup Verdicts: Arkansas Jurors Side With Monsanto, Mistrial in Delaware

Jurors in Conway County Circuit Court, in Arkansas, gave Monsanto its 11th win on Friday in Roundup trials, and New Castle County Superior Court Judge Vivian Medinilla declared a mistrial after jurors in Delaware were deadlocked.

By Amanda Bronstad

3 minute read

March 01, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Florida Jurors to Begin Deliberations in First Ovarian Talc Trial Since J&J Bankruptcies

"Because it doesn't appear that you are even remotely remorseful for any of the conduct that you have been alleged, or been found, to have been involved in," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge William Thomas said in tense arguments that occurred prior to the closings.

By Amanda Bronstad

4 minute read