Ellen Bardash

October 29, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

A legal data expert who has been tracking case causes in the Court of Chancery throughout the pandemic, said the year-over-year increase in filings can definitely be attributed to COVID-19.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

October 27, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Decisions about fossil fuels on a global scale should be left to the federal government to make through policy and international negotiations, lawyers for Chevron wrote in a brief.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

October 26, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said laundered funds were used to commit crimes including tax fraud by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, neither of whom cooperated with or responded to the DOJ's effort to dissolve the six entities, which included four LLCs.

By Ellen Bardash

2 minute read

October 26, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The case challenged a proposed reclassification effectively transferring the majority of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's interest in Facebook without diminishing his voting power.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

October 23, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

In Kent County, only one courtroom has been identified as large enough to hold a jury trial while allowing for social distancing measures to be taken.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

October 22, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The shareholder derivative suit alleges 10 of the San Diego-based company's officers and directors intentionally gave investors nonspecific information and failed to disclose the risk factors of Pracinostat, a drug for which an international clinical trial was halted in July just before MEI's share price dropped more than 18% in a day.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

October 20, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The complaint cited press releases and publicly filed documents which they allege oversold Nikola's top employees' qualifications and the company's manufacturing capabilities, overall exaggerating its ability to cut costs on hydrogen fuel.

By Ellen Bardash

2 minute read

October 19, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The District of Delaware case alleges thousands of Illinoisans now face a heightened risk of becoming victims of identity theft or fraud due to practices by Amazon Web Services Inc. and Pindrop Security Inc., both of which are Delaware corporations, in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

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