{"id":153694,"date":"2026-06-03T07:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/03\/critical-mass-with-law-coms-amanda-bronstad-prominent-firms-bring-class-actions-for-50000-californians-evacuated-wildfire-victims-want-oregon-appellate-judge-disqualified\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:58:59","slug":"critical-mass-with-law-coms-amanda-bronstad-prominent-firms-bring-class-actions-for-50000-californians-evacuated-wildfire-victims-want-oregon-appellate-judge-disqualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/03\/critical-mass-with-law-coms-amanda-bronstad-prominent-firms-bring-class-actions-for-50000-californians-evacuated-wildfire-victims-want-oregon-appellate-judge-disqualified\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Mass With Law.com&#8217;s Amanda Bronstad: Prominent Firms Bring Class Actions For 50,000 Californians Evacuated, Wildfire Victims Want Oregon Appellate Judge Disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week:\u00a0Prominent plaintiffs firms Morgan &amp; Morgan, Seeger Weiss and Weitz &amp; Luxenberg filed at least a dozen class actions against an aerospace company after a potential leak at its site in Southern California prompted mass evacuations. A disqualification motion says Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Anna Joyce, who wrote an April 8 opinion wiping out $1 billion in wildfire verdicts, should be disqualified for failing to disclose she represented the defendant, PacifiCorp, while working at one of its defense firms. Find out who represents Health Gorilla in a dozen data breach class actions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/957692792\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a title=\"Add to FaceBook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/957692792\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Like on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/957692792\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Pin it!\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/29\/957692792\/law\/legal-news%2Chttps%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-alm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F81%2Fdb%2Fe65d680845019406a4e63acbd1e3%2Foregon-justice-building-jpeg767x5051.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Stumble This\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/12\/957692792\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Post to X.com\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/24\/957692792\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/957692792\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1080\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png?fit=1080%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>Critical Mass With Law.com\u2019s Amanda Bronstad: Prominent Firms Bring Class Actions For 50,000 Californians Evacuated, Wildfire Victims Want Oregon Appellate Judge Disqualified | Law.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"__nuxt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/957692792\/0\/law\/legal-news~Critical-Mass-With-Lawcoms-Amanda-Bronstad-Prominent-Firms-Bring-Class-Actions-For-Californians-Evacuated-Wildfire-Victims-Want-Oregon-Appellate-Judge\/#main-content\" class=\"absolute left-3 -top-20 z-[9999] bg-blue-600 text-white px-5 py-3 transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out focus:top-2 focus:outline-none focus:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-2 focus:ring-blue-800 focus:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Skip to content <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week:\u00a0Prominent plaintiffs firms Morgan &amp; Morgan, Seeger Weiss and Weitz &amp; Luxenberg filed at least a dozen class actions against an aerospace company after a potential leak at its site in Southern California prompted mass evacuations. A disqualification motion says Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Anna Joyce, who wrote an April 8 opinion wiping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":153695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/legal-news-ZCnN8A.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}