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Ellen Bardash

Ellen Bardash

Ellen Bardash is ALM's reporter covering Delaware litigation for Delaware Law Weekly and Delaware Business Court Insider. She can be contacted at [email protected], on Twitter @Dellenware or on Threads @ellenbardash.

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May 14, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Bar Diversity Strategy Includes Changes in Admission Standards

Twelve steps the 2022 report outlined as ways to reduce barriers to notoriously stringent Delaware bar admission have been taken, making that the element of the plan that's seen the most concrete change over the past two years.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

May 09, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Judge Announces Retirement From US 3rd Circuit Appeals Court

According to the federal judiciary, Judge Kent A. Jordan gave notice of his plan to retire on May 7, and he plans to leave the bench on Jan. 15, days before a presidential inauguration. With one other current vacancy on the court, the currently majority-Republican Third Circuit could flip.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

May 08, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Argument Among Shareholders Rolls on With Appeal of AMC Settlement

It's a unique situation for Delaware's high court, with attorneys from the plaintiffs' bar and those who represent the corporate side sitting at the same table, united in wanting to uphold a settlement that a subset of the class of AMC shareholders wants to have overturned.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

May 06, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Activision Owes Acceleration Bay $23.4M for Multiplayer Gaming Patent Infringement, Jury Says

The jury found Activision liable for $18 million for infringing in World of Warcraft and another $5.4 million for infringing in two Call of Duty games.

By Ellen Bardash

2 minute read

May 03, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Microsoft, Activision Blizzard Seek Chancery Approval of $69B Merger

The companies are seeking to end an ongoing, parallel case that an Activision shareholder, the Swedish pension fund Sjunde AP-fonden, has been pursuing since November 2022.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

May 01, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Del. Supreme Court Unanimously Grants Another Shareholder Win Over Pre-Vote Disclosure

The high court's decision is the latest to map out steps corporations need to take when handling a controller-involved transaction.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

April 30, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Zurn Declines to Weigh In on Truth Social Forum and Rushing Stock Lockup Lift

The Vice Chancellor said won't speed its consideration of a motion that could lift restrictions on shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

April 26, 2024 | New York Law Journal

$3.5M Awarded in First Pair of Revenge Porn Cases Tried Under NY State Law

The New York law that formed the basis of the cases brought by Jamaica residents Kimberly Facey, an attorney, and Danielle Lawrence, a business student, has been in effect since 2019 but had not previously been tried in the state's courts.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

April 26, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Closing 'Unacceptable Loopholes': How Sex Abuse Claimants Could Gain Power in Chapter 11 Bankruptcies

The Boy Scouts of America, which filed for Chapter 11 in the District of Delaware in February 2020 and has since had a reorganization plan confirmed, faced more abuse claims than had been brought in any bankruptcy case before. A new bill in Congress would address such cases.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

April 24, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Urged to Block Tesla 'Run From Jurisdiction' in Elon Musk Pay Case

Tesla has filed a proxy indicating it would be seeking shareholder votes on a relocation to Texas and whether Musk should receive the 2018 compensation plan that had been struck down by the Court of Chancery.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read