• Bolton v. Ford Motor Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Scott M. Tucker, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Timothy N. Mathews, Alex M. Kashurba, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Haverford, PA; Russell D. Paul, Abigail J. Gertner, Amey J. Park, Natalie Lesser, Berger Montague PC, Wilmington, DE; Tarek H. Zohdy, Cody R. Padgett, Laura E. Goolsby, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Christian J. Singewald, White & Williams, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 23-00632-GBW

    Court declined to dismiss vehicle defect claims where plaintiffs sufficiently identified the nature of the defect and claimed losses beyond that which would be compensated through the manufacturer's recall program.

  • Prod. Madness, Inc. v. Kingston

    Publication Date: 2024-06-03
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: E-Commerce | Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan D. Stottmann, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Chimicles, Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2024-0040-MTZ

    Court denied confidentiality of litigation record motion where parties could not rely on a contractual provision to demand confidentiality and movant failed to overcome the presumption in favor of public access.

  • Patel v. Alphabet Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raj Patel, Indianapolis, IN, plaintiff pro se.
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    Case Number: 23-797 (MN)

    Court dismissed pro se complaint as unintelligible and barred by res judicata.

  • KDM Dev. Corp. v. The Consumer Prot. Unit of the Dep't of Justice of the State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Paradee, Brian V. DeMott, Dover, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Owen P. Lefkon, Ryan T. Costa, Deputy Attorneys General, State of Delaware Department of Justice Wilmington, DE for respondent.

    Case Number: S23M-06-018-CAK

    Consumer Protection Unit had statutory authority to issue subpoenas to affiliate of manufactured home community owners where it was not exclusively bound to make civil investigative demands under the Consumer Fraud Act, and the subpoenas were sufficiently tailored to the scope of an investigation into the safety of the community residents.

  • Beeney v. FCA US LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Hughes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ian Connor Bifferato, The Bifferato Firm, Wilmington, DE; Rosemary M. Rivas, David Stein, Kyla J. Gibboney, Gibbs Law Group LLP, Oakland, CA; William H. Anderson, Handley Farah & Anderson PLLC, Boulder, CO; Rebecca P. Chang, Handley Farah & Anderson PLLC, New York, NY; Simon Wiener, Handley Farah & Anderson PLLC, Boston, MA; Jon M. Herskowitz, Baron & Herskowitz, Miami, FL 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 defendant.

    Case Number: 22-00518-TMH

    Vehicle purchasers' claims arising from manufacturers destination charge practices failed where federal law only required vehicle window stickers to list the price charged by a manufacturer to a dealer to ship vehicles from the factory to the dealer lot and there was no evidence that allegedly inflated destination charges caused consumers to pay more for vehicles as ultimate purchase prices were set by dealerships.

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  • Diaz v. FCA US LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Wallach
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Russell D. Paul, Amey J. Park, Abigail J. Gertner, Natalie Lesser, Berger Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA; Tarek H. Zohdy, Cody R. Padgett, Laura E. Goolsby, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA; Steven Calamusa, Geoffrey Stahl, Rachel Bentley, Gordon & Partners, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patrick M. Brannigan, Jessica L. Reno, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen A. D’Aunoy, Thomas L. Azar, Scott H. Morgan, Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, MO for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-cv-00906-EJW

    Vehicle purchasers' fraud claims against manufacturer failed where their evidence failed to permit an inference that the manufacturer had pre-sale knowledge of an alleged design or manufacturing defect in one of the vehicle's components, and where there was no allegation that the manufacturer knowingly concealed or misrepresented the alleged defect.

  • Salas v. Acuity-CHS, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Federal Government | Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas A. Migliaccio, Jason Rathod, Tyler J. Bean, Migliaccio & Rathod, LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Aimee M. Czachorowski, Cheneise Wright, Francis G.X. Pileggi, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Danielle E. Stierna, Jon P. Kardassakis, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-317-RGA

    Data breach victim had Article III standing by alleging incidents of misuse of her personal identifiable information and alleging that her PII accessed in the data breach was available to cybercriminals.

  • Talley v. Gen. Motors, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell D. Paul, Amey J. Park, Abigail J. Gertner, Berger Montague PC, Philadelphia, PA; Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein, & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tarek H. Zohdy, Cody R. Padgett, Laura E. Goolsby, Capstone Law APC, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Oderah C. Nwaeze, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Christine W. Chen, Crystal Nix-Hines, Shon Morgan, Meredith R. Mandell, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant.

    Case Number: D70179

    Court declined to certify interlocutory appeal of dismissal of certain claims where an appeal would not materially advance litigation of the surviving claims and continued litigation would uncover evidence relevant to the dismissed claims.

  • Garner v. Global Plasma Solutions Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-29
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Scott M. Tucker, Tiffany Joanne Cramer, Timothy Mathews, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steffan T. Keeton, The Keeton Firm LLC, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Adam Wyatt Poff, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; R. Trent Taylor, McGuireWoods, Richmond, VA for defendant.

    Case Number: D69764

    Manufacturer made misrepresentations in marketing for air ionizer product by failing to disclose its funding of studies of the efficacy of the device and by asserting that there was no scientific dispute that the device neutralized the COVID-19 virus where several studies concluded that it did not.

  • Kirchner v. Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Travel and Tourism
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Weiswasser Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Howard B. Prossnitz, Law Offices of Howard Prossnitz, Oak Park, IL; Adam Szulczewski, Chicago, Illinois for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Matthew Denn, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; David S. Sager, DLA Piper LLP (US), Short Hills, NJ for defendant.

    Case Number: D69699

    Fraudulent omission claims not dismissed where defendant's contractual disclosures did not contradict plaintiffs' allegations.