• Surf's Up Legacy Partners LLC v. Virgin Fest, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, James G. MacMillan, III, Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric M. George, Kim S. Zeldin, Browne George Ross LLP, Los Angeles CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert K. Beste, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Marvin S. Putnam, Jessica Stebbins Bina, R. Peter Durning, Jr., Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69659

    Motion of law firm to intervene to attach an attorney's lien for a judgment for unpaid legal fees denied where firm's right to attach the lien was contractually limited only to causes of actions that were the subject of the engagement agreement, and the firm sought to intervene in a completely unrelated legal action.

  • Hologram, Inc. v. Caplan

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Barlow, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael C. Tu, Peter J. Brody, Cooley LLP, Santa Monica, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Peter B. Ladig, Justin C. Barrett, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kenneth S.Ulrich, W. Kyle Walther, Goldberg Kohn LTD., Chicago, IL for defendant.

    Case Number: D69656

    The court held that plaintiff was entitled to a preliminary injunction to prevent defendant from pursuing arbitration against plaintiff where plaintiff will likely show that it never agreed to arbitrate defendant's claims.

  • Trumbull Radiologists, Inc. v. Premier Imaging TRI Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-14
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominick T. Gattuso, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony J. O’Malley, Rajeev K. Adlakha, Karey E. Werner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Cleveland, OH for plaintiffs
    for defendant: D. McKinley Measley, Sabrina M. Hendershot, Michael J. Slobom, Jr., Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Britt K. Latham, Bass Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville, TN; Shayne R. Clinton, Bass Berry & Sims PLC, Knoxville, TN for defendants

    Case Number: D69642

    The court held that plaintiffs properly pled claims of both breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing; at the pleadings stage, plaintiffs were allowed to maintain both claims. Motion to dismiss denied.

  • Leaseweb USA, Inc. v. Centro, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-07
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl D. Neff, Fisher Broyles, LLP, Wilmington, DE; William J. Akins, Fisher Broyles, LLP, Austin, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Clarissa R. Chenoweth-Shook, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69634

    The court held that because plaintiff and defendant produced plausible interpretations of the term at issue, it made the contract ambiguous and not appropriate for summary judgment.

  • Bandera Master Fund, LP v. Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP

    Publication Date: 2021-11-30
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Daniel G. Paterno, Eric A. Veres, Samuel D. Cordle, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Srinivas M. Raju, Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rolin P. Bissell, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen P. Lamb, Andrew G. Gordon, Harris Fischman, Robert N. Kravitz, Carter E. Greenbaum, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Lawrence Portnoy, Charles S. Duggan, Gina Cora, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY, for defendants.

    Case Number: D69622

    The court held that the General Partner breached the partnership agreement by exercising the call right without first satisfy-ing the Opinion Condition or the Acceptability Condition.

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  • Broome v. Am. Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus

    Publication Date: 2021-11-30
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Restrepo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: D69628

    Suit to vacate arbitration award under FAA dismissed where plaintiffs failed to timely serve process or effect service via U.S. Marshal as required by the FAA.

  • InTeam Assocs. v. Heartland Payment Sys., LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-11-16
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Consulting | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad J. Bracegirdle, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David A. Battaglia, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Travis S. Hunter, Nicole K. Pedi, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69608

    The court held that plaintiff failed to show that defendant engaged in contemptuous conduct constituting a violation of a previously issued court order under the preponderance of the evidence standard for contempt claims.

  • Lennox Indus., Inc. v. Alliance Compressors LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-11-09
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Legrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard P. Rollo, Travis S. Hunter, Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards, Layton, & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eric B. Halper, N. Cyris Bayar, McKool Smith P.C., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jon E. Abramczyk, D. McKinley Measley, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; James F. Bennett, John D. Comerford, Down Bennett LLP, St. Louis, MO for defendant.

    Case Number: D69602

    The court held that the terms of the agreement between the parties was unambiguous such that plaintiff could not impose a new interpretation.

  • Hammer v. Howard

    Publication Date: 2021-11-09
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Advertising | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy Hammer, pro se appellant.
    for defendant: R. Eric Hacker, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: D69600

    The court held that plaintiff was barred from suing defendant, her former employer, a second time for unpaid sales commissions because res judicata applied where the parties in the first and second suit were in privity with each other and the cause of action in each suit arose out of the same transaction, i.e., payment of post-termination commissions according to the contractual agreements.

  • Intermec IP Corp. v. TransCore, LP

    Publication Date: 2021-11-02
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Electronics | Manufacturing | Software
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Nelson, Jessica L.G. Moran, K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jason A. Cincilla, Howard P. Goldberg, Tye C. Bell, Manning Gross + Massenburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen E. Baskin, Peter Schmidt, King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: D69592

    Proposed amendment of declaratory judgment claim was futile where it sought declaration of rights and obligations that would be resolved by an existing breach of contract claim, or sought legal declarations to which defendant had already conceded.