Ellen Bardash

July 29, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Of the 725 specific categories into which businesses receiving PPP loans were grouped, law offices received more individual loans in Delaware than all but seven, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Small Business Administration.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

July 27, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

A stockholder for the Chemours Company alleged in a federal complaint Monday the company has misrepresented an estimated $2.46 billion in environmental liabilities since it was created.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

July 24, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Of specific concern, Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. noted, was the fact that almost 60% of those scheduled to sit for the bar exam would be traveling from other states to do so, with some coming from areas designated as COVID-19 hot spots or subject to quarantine restrictions in their home states.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

July 24, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Retailers have asked that—because they did not know when entering into their leases that their stores would be forced to close—those leases be terminated and reformed.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

July 23, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

No part of the $57 million judgment or its accrued interest has been paid, and no bond has been put up to stay the judgment, according to the complaint.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

July 22, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

A long-awaited intellectual property case involving the energy company Sunoco was one of the matters to be postponed indefinitely, as Chief Judge Leonard Stark said the continued bar on jury trials would be extended through the end of August as a safety precaution.

By Ellen Bardash

6 minute read

July 21, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The decision was made the same day oral arguments were made via Zoom, with Zurn stating she found, based on what was presented by Andrew Kassof, of Kirkland & Ellis, who argued the case on behalf of SIRVA, that Realogy, not SIRVA, caused the conditions of the deal to fail.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

July 16, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider

The agreement settles claims that were set to be addressed by the Delaware Court of Chancery in what would have been the first trial to consider COVID-19's effects on a company as a potential material adverse event that could warrant another company backing out of a deal.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

July 15, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

The court's community relations chief said the largest backlogs of cases developed over the past several months in the courts that regularly see higher volumes of cases, including the Justice of the Peace Court, which kept three courts open to the public 24 hours a day, with restrictions, throughout the judicial state of emergency.

By Ellen Bardash

5 minute read

July 14, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly

Lawyers for Gov. John Carney filed their writ of certiorari in September, arguing the appellate court's decision violated the state's sovereign power to determine qualifications for government officials

By Ellen Bardash

5 minute read