Ellen Bardash

October 15, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The move was made during discovery in TransPerfect's case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging the other two companies made a sham bid for TransPerfect in an attempt to obtain trade secrets, but TransPerfect's counsel and CEO said they will support their opponents' push for the Delaware records to no longer be confidential.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

October 13, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Arnold & Porter assisted the ACLU of Delaware and the Community Legal Aid Society pro bono in the case, which was in mediation for three days before ice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

October 13, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The complaint said Johnson & Johnson approached a potential merger partner for its Ethicon unit and offered upfront payment and billions of dollars in "earn-out" payments if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its products and they sold well. The offer, plaintiffs said, would have imposed vast costs on them.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

October 12, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Though concerns raised by U.S. Postal Service delays may have warranted a further look at whether requiring what's expected to be a significantly higher than usual number of mail-in ballots to be received by 8 p.m. Nov. 3 was unreasonable, the current circumstances aren't enough for the deadline to be considered a constitutional issue.

By Ellen Bardash

5 minute read

October 08, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Lawyers who guided True Religion through one of the first retail Chapter 11 cases sparked by the pandemic, said cooperation--focused on settling with lenders who were owed $65.8 million and prioritizing paying rent for stores that closed earlier this year—was key to resolution.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

October 06, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The case is the fifth derivative action to be brought against Honeywell, its CEO and chairman Darius E. Adamczyk and board members and directors by shareholders who say the company underrepresented how much asbestos liability it faced, while tens of thousands of personal injury cases are still pending against the technology and manufacturing giant.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

October 05, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Had state officials taken earlier efforts to quarantine inmates and provide them with face masks, the deaths of 12 inmates and 1 in 3 people at the Georgetown facility testing positive for the virus might have been avoided, plaintiffs said.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

October 05, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The entities were closed under a new Delaware statute governing LLCs, which was was signed into law shortly before Cohen's guilty plea on charges of making false statements to a bank and making excessive campaign contributions.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

October 05, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who clerked for Delawarean Walter Stapleton when the latter served on the Third Circuit, said from his perspective, Delaware's process doesn't differ much from those used in other states.

By Ellen Bardash

5 minute read

October 02, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The dismissal throws out the stockholders' allegations that TrueCar's directors and officers knew in advance that an update to a website made by USAA, with which TrueCar had a partnership and which was a large driver of sales, would be "a nightmare to use" and ultimately drive away customers.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read