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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.
January 21, 2022 | Delaware Law Weekly
Laura Davis Jones, a partner at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones in Wilmington, Delaware, said at the hearing that the dual committees would "foster division, not compromise," and create an "enhanced footing of one subset of talc claimants."
By Amanda Bronstad
5 minute read
December 21, 2021 | Delaware Law Weekly
Lawyers for talc claimants have moved to dismiss the Chapter 11 case, filed by LTL Management, a newly created subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to resolve more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder products cause ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
By Amanda Bronstad
9 minute read
July 21, 2021 | Delaware Law Weekly
Attorneys general from several states, including New York and California, announced Wednesday a $26 billion global settlement to resolve lawsuits against the nation's three largest distributors of opiate pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson. The deal, which is dependent on how many governments participate, also aims to resolves the vast majority of more than 4,000 lawsuits filed by cities and counties.
By Amanda Bronstad
6 minute read
January 22, 2021 | Delaware Law Weekly
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti of the District of New Jersey approved a leadership team of 25 plaintiffs lawyers, 18 of whom are women, to spearhead 140 lawsuits alleging Janssen's pharmaceutical drug Elmiron causes eye problems.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
December 10, 2020 | Law.com
In motions to dismiss filed in Iowa and Texas, Tyson cited an April 28 executive order from President Donald Trump to keep meat plants open, as well as two regulatory laws, in arguing that federal law preempts lawsuits brought by employees who got sick or died from COVID-19.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
March 6, 2020 | Law.com
DuPont's lawyers have moved for a mistrial, insisting that a holdout juror questioned by the judge had "tears in her eyes" prior to the verdict for an Ohio couple suing over chemical C8 dumped in the Ohio River. A lawyer for the plaintiffs, and the judge, have disagreed.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
February 25, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly
Mallinckrodt's "settlement framework" resolves thousands of claims brought by cities and counties in the multidistrict litigation and has the support of 47 attorneys general from states and U.S. territories.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
November 8, 2019 | Delaware Law Weekly
In dual orders Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted interlocutory appeal of a Sept. 11 order by U.S. District Judge Dan Polster approving certification of a "negotiation" class of potentially 33,000 cities and counties suing opioid companies.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
July 24, 2019 | Delaware Law Weekly
In a July 19 decision first reported by CNBC, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika of the District of Delaware said Johnson & Johnson was "patently forum shopping."
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
July 1, 2019 | Delaware Law Weekly
A bankruptcy judge in Delaware is set to hear arguments Tuesday over whether to halt 166 government lawsuits against Insys Therapeutics Inc. over the opioid crisis.
By Amanda Bronstad
1 minute read
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