• Davis v. Gas Recovery, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-840-SRF

    Defendant police officers' summary judgment motion denied where they failed to cite legal authority in support of their motion and where there were genuine issues of material fact regarding the purpose of the officers' appearance and whether the police department had ordered a private company to destroy a recording of the evidence.

  • Moore v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Moore, New Castle, DE, plaintiff pro se.
    for defendant: Lisa Moore, Bear, DE, defendant pro se.

    Case Number: 22-747-CFC

    Claim against co-parent alleging their fraudulent receipt of Social Security disability benefits meant for their child did not confer federal question jurisdiction.

  • Rodriguez v. Capital Vision Serv., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care | Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1222-RGA

    Discrimination claims failed due to lack of evidence that discriminatory animus motivated adverse employment decisions or lack of adequate comparators, where employer had performance-related reasons for its decision.

  • Maugain v. FCA US LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein, & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Russell D. Paul, Abigail J. Gertner, Amey J. Park, Natalie Lesser, Berger Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA; Tarek H. Zohdy, Cody R. Padgett, Laura Goolsby, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA; Steven Calarnusa, Geoff Stahl, Rachel Bentley, Gordon & Partners, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Geoffrey Graber, Brian E. Johnson, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patrick M. Brannigan, Jessica L. Reno, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen A. D’Aunoy, Scott H. Morgan, Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, MO for defendants

    Case Number: 22-116-GBW

    The court granted a motion to dismiss in part in a class action matter filed by vehicle owners against an engine manufacturer and distributor.

  • White Winston Select Asset Funds, LLC v. Good Times Rests, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-21
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Alan Barkasy, Stephen A. Fogdall, Kristi JoLynn Doughty, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Catherine A. Gaul, Michael Dean Walker, Jr., Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Davis G. Mosmeyer III, Peter L. Loh, Sara A. Brown, Foley & Lardner LLP, Dallas, TX for defendant.

    Case Number: 19-cv-02092-SB

    Breach of duty to negotiate in good faith claim rejected where parties' non-binding letter of intent let seller walk away for any reason and seller continued to pursue the transaction up until new financial performance data motivated seller to ask for higher price, where the evidence showed that seller would have consummated the transaction at that higher price.

  • Pfizer Inc. v. Sinotherapeutics Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1427-GBW

    Court declined to grant patent infringement defendant judgment on the pleadings based on prosecution history estoppel where the evidentiary record was not developed enough to determine whether plaintiff's amendments to its patents were related to patentability.

  • Vanda Pharm., Inc. v. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Jacobs, Derek J. Fahnestock, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas Groombridge, Eric Alan Stone, Josephine Young, Daniel J. Klein, Jennifer Rea Deneault, Michael F. Milea, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Karen E. Keller, Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; J.C. Rozendaal, Deirdre M. Wells, William H. Milliken, Sasha Rao, Michael Bruns, Byron L. Pickard, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC, Washington, DC; Thomas J. Francella, Jr., Kaan Ekiner, Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Barry P. Golob, W. Blake Coblentz, Aaron S. Lukas, Kerry B. McTigue, Cozen O’Connor, Washington, DC; Keri L. Schaubert, Cozen O’Connor, New York, NY; Derek Gretkowski, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: 18-651-CFC

    Defendants' ANDA did not result in liability for infringement of patent claims that the court found invalid as obvious based on the combined teachings of the prior art.

  • McRedmond v. HCR Healthcare, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Christopher Gallagher, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Geoffrey Graham Grivner, Kody Macgyver Sparks, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Wilmington, DE; Joshua T. Calo, David L. Gordon, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Princeton, NJ for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-692-CFC

    Execution of agreement upon subsequent admission to nursing home facility superseded arbitration agreements signed on a prior admission where the second agreement conflicted with the terms of the prior arbitration agreement.

  • In re: Start Man Furniture LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Joyce, Joyce, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Rene S. Roupinian, Jack A. Raisner, Gail C. Lin, Raisner Roupinian LLP, New York, NY for appellants and cross-appellees.
    for defendant: Bradford J. Sandler, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE for cross-appellant and appellee.

    Case Number: 20-10553 (CTG)

    Court reversed in part Bankruptcy Court's decision holding that debtor employers were not required to provide notice under the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act prior to laying off workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Hewlett Packard Enter. Co. v. Intellectual Ventures I LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-20
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian A. Biggs, Angela C. Whitesell, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sean Cunningham, Erin P. Gibson, Tiffany Miller, DLA Piper LLP, San Diego, CA; Helena Kiepura, DLA Piper LLP, Washington, DC; Brent Yamashita, DLA Piper LLP, East Palo Alto, CA; Dawn Jenkins, DLA Piper LLP, Houston, TX; Nancy C. Braman, DLPA Piper LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew D. Vella, Robert R. Gilman, Aaron Jacobs, Prince Lobel Tye LLP, Boston, MA for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-730-GBW-CJB

    Court denied defendants' motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction in a patent infringement case, noting that they had subject matter jurisdiction to hear the cause pursuant to the Declaratory Judgment Act.