Amanda Bronstad

The Nevada Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week about an Uber-backed ballot measure that would impose a 20% cap on contingency fees in all civil cases, the strictest in the nation.

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, of the Northern District of California, preliminary approved the 23andMe settlement, provided lawyers make some changes.

This week: A California state court judge found plaintiffs’ sole general causation expert in the paraquat litigation inadmissible. A third-party filer called ClaimClam is exiting class action settlements after pushback from judges and class counsel. Find out who Mattel’s Fisher-Price hired to handle class actions over recalled Snuga Swings.

U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, in the Central District of California, said Tom Girardi, 85, was 'exaggerating symptoms' of cognitive impairment.

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A Tuesday motion before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said more than 20 lawsuits over Depo-Provera should be coordinated in the Northern District of California.

At a Tuesday hearing, however, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez, in the Southern District of Texas, ordered Beasley Allen and the Smith Law Firm to produce example communications demonstrating how their 11,000 clients voted for or against Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy plan.

After seven days of deliberations, a jury in Oakland, California, failed on Thursday to reach a verdict.

Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Red River Talc, which filed for bankruptcy to resolve talcum powder lawsuits, moved to sanction Beasley Allen's Andy Birchfield after he did not appear for a Monday deposition.

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