Ellen Bardash

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

October 02, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr.'s Friday order to enter the second-to-last phase of the plan also extended the judicial state of emergency for a seventh time, through Nov. 4.

By Ellen Bardash

1 minute read

October 01, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

The challengers' attorney, from Finger & Slanina, said upholding the requirement would mean violating the Supreme Court's precedent setting the role of politics in government employment.

By Ellen Bardash

6 minute read

September 30, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

While the custodianship case between Philip R. Shawe and Elizabeth Elting has been sorted out through mediation, TransPerfect's legal saga in Delaware isn't over, as Shawe and TransPerfect continue to contest attorney fees charged by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as custodian in the case during the company's 2015 sale for $770 million.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read