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  • Morrison v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2018-07-25
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Retail
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher P. Quinn, Randall J. Baron and Christopher H. Lyons for plaintiff
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Ethan H. Townsend, Harrison S. Carpenter and David Clarke, Jr. for Berry defendants; Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri, Ryan P. Durkin, Adam L. Sisitsky, Lavinia M. Weizel, Robert I Bodian and Scott A. Rader for remaining defendants.
    Case Number: D68226

    The board provided misleading information to stockholders prior to a vote, so the business judgment rule did not apply.

  • Sherman v. State of Delaware Dept. of Public Safety

    Publication Date: 2018-07-11
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edmund Daniel Lyons, Jr. for plaintiff
    for defendant: Lynn Kelly and Michael F. McTaggart for the state.
    Case Number: D68210

    As a matter of law, if a police officer made a valid arrest and then used that leverage to engage in sexual activ-ity with an arrestee, the officer's conduct did not need to fall within the scope of his employment to trigger em-ployer liability.

  • Ramsey v. Georgia S. Univ. Advanced Dev. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Toxic Torts
    Industry: Education | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raeann Warner, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorney for appellant
    for defendant: Eileen M. Ford and Megan T. Mantzavinos, Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Goldman and Lisa C. McLaughlin, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sarah P. Kelly, Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP, Boston, MA, attorneys for appellees.
    Case Number: D68208

    Asbestos manufacturers obligated to provide safe handling warnings and instructions to employers who purchased asbestos products, such that employers could pass those warnings and instructions onto their employees, and could have liability for failure to provide such warnings and instructions.

  • Grimes v. State

    Publication Date: 2018-06-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell Grimes, pro se appellant
    for defendant: Smyrna, DE; John Williams, Delaware Department of Justice, Dover, DE, attorney for appellee.
    Case Number: D68192

    Acquittal on lesser-included offense did not preclude retrial on greater offenses contained within the same indictment after initial conviction on those greater offenses was vacated on direct appeal.

  • Everett v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2018-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin B. O'Connor for the state.
    for defendant: Nicole M. Walker for defendant
    Case Number: D68177

    A criminal defendant did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy with regard to his social media account where he permitted others to have access to material he posted on that account, so the search warrant based on such information did not violate defendant's constitutional rights.

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  • Aranda v. Philip Morris USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Agriculture
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ian Connor Bifferato, Richard S. Gebelein, and Thomas F. Driscoll, The Bifferato Firm, Wilmington, DE; Charles S. Siegel, Waters & Kraus, LLP, Dallas, TX; Stephen J. Phillips, Phillips & Paolicelli, New York, NY; the Thorton Law Firm, Boston, MA, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: P. Clarkson Collins, Jr. and David J. Soldo, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Patrick W. Dennis and Perlette Michele Jura, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Miguel A. Estrada and Amir C. Tayrani, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC; Donald E. Reid, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew S. Hellman, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC; Elizabeth A. Coleman and Casey T. Grabenstein, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, attorneys for appellees.
    Case Number: D68094

    Availability of alternative forum not a condition of dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds, as analysis focused solely on defendants hardship in litigating in Delaware.

  • Pavik v. George & Lynch, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chase T. Brockstedt, Stephen A. Spence, Vincent A. Bifferato, Jr. and Roger D. Landon for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Louis J. Rizzo, Jr. for defendants.
    Case Number: D68099

    Whether a contractor was negligent in failing to post temporary warning signs at a road construction site was a question for the finder of fact, and summary judgment was not proper.

  • Elenza, Inc. v. Alcon Labs. Holding Corp.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Intellectual Property
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Simeone, Charles T. Kimmett, Walter E. Anderson, and John R. Grimm, Harris, Wilshire & Grannis LLP, Washington, DC; Andrew D. Cordo and F. Troupe Mickler IV, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellant
    for defendant: Heidi K. Hubbard, Daniel P. Shanahan, David Randall J. Riskin, Tamara A. Rubb, and Michelle L. Hood, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC; Michael P. Kelly, Daniel M. Silver, and Benjamin P. Smyth, McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellees.
    Case Number: D68096

    Misappropriation of trade secrets claim properly denied where plaintiff failed to cite specific uses of its alleged trade secrets in any claimed misappropriation by defendant.

  • Marquinez v. The Dow Chem. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-28
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara H. Stratton, Jonathan S. Massey and Scott M. Hendler for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Donald E. Reid, Michael L. Brem, James W. Semple, Boaz S. Morag, Timothy Jay Houseal, D. Ferguson McNeil, Lisa C. McLaughlin, Adam V. Orlacchio and Kelly E. Farnan for defendants.
    Case Number: D68090

    In its answer to a certified question in this class action matter, the Delaware Supreme Court concluded that a conditional dismissal did not stop class action tolling.

  • Cannon v. State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, Ross Aronstam & Moritz, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John P. Deckers, The Law Offices of John P. Deckers, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellant;
    for defendant: Carolyn S. Hake, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, attorney for appellee.
    Case Number: D68079

    Family court erred in adjudicating juvenile delinquent for criminally negligent homicide where juveniles attack upon victim did not create a foreseeable risk of death as the risks of injury and death were unrelated to the victims cause of death.