Ellen Bardash

Ellen Bardash

Ellen Bardash is ALM's reporter covering corporate litigation for Law.com and Delaware Business Court Insider. She can be contacted by emailing [email protected] or following @ellenbardash.bsky.social on Bluesky.

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January 02, 2025 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Meet the Delaware Court of Chancery's First Senior Magistrate Judge

Selena E. Molina's elevation comes at a time the Court of Chancery has more magistrates than ever before. While the court has assigned traditional equity cases to magistrates since the 1980s, it's been pushing to widen the magistrate bench over the past several years.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

December 30, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Claims Linking Fox Management to Defamation Liability Clear Hurdle

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster wrote that shareholder plaintiffs had shown Rupert Murdoch's potential liability in the case prevented him from considering litigation independently.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

December 20, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Latham, Finnegan Win $115M Muscular Dystrophy Drug Patent Verdict for Counterclaimant

The trial took place over five days before U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Hall.

By Ellen Bardash

2 minute read

December 19, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Supreme Court Adopts Broad Interpretation of Case Law on Anticompetition Provisions

Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. wrote that the court used the employee choice doctrine in Cantor Fitzgerald after weighing conflicting policy concerns, distinguishing forfeiture for competition provisions from restrictive covenants, which can be enforced through injunctive relief.

By Ellen Bardash

3 minute read

December 18, 2024 | The Recorder

Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor Glasscock Reflects on Rewards of Equity Work, Clerks and the Delaware Way

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock, who has not announced any post-retirement plans, discussed how the court's workload has changed, the most pivotal chancery cases resolved during his tenure and his experience working with law clerks and members of the Delaware bar.

By Ellen Bardash

10 minute read

December 18, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

'We've Got a Good Thing Here in Delaware': Glasscock Reflects on Rewards of Equity Work, Clerks and the Delaware Way

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock, who has not announced any post-retirement plans, discussed how the court's workload has changed, the most pivotal chancery cases resolved during his tenure and his experience working with law clerks and members of the Delaware bar.

By Ellen Bardash

10 minute read

December 16, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Senate Approves Bonnie David for Vice Chancellor

Prior to joining the court as magistrate, she litigated corporate matters before the Chancery court as an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

By Ellen Bardash

2 minute read

December 11, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Attorneys, Professors Share Support for Chancellor Following Musk's Online Attacks

"We believe that the expert, hard-working, and outstanding members of the Court of Chancery as well as other members of the Delaware judiciary deserve vocal support from the bar when they are the subjects of unfair attack," lawyers said in the letter Tuesday night.

By Ellen Bardash

4 minute read

December 04, 2024 | The Recorder

Elon Musk Has a Lot More Than a 'Tornetta' Appeal to Resolve in Del. Court

It could be a while before Musk sees the last of Delaware or McCormick, who he called in a Dec. 3 tweet "a radical far left activist cosplaying as a judge," as the list of Delaware cases still pending against Musk and/or Tesla heading into 2025 extends well beyond Tornetta at both the state and federal levels.

By Ellen Bardash

5 minute read

December 04, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Elon Musk Has a Lot More Than a 'Tornetta' Appeal to Resolve in Delaware

It could be a while before Musk sees the last of Delaware or McCormick, who he called in a Dec. 3 tweet "a radical far left activist cosplaying as a judge," as the list of Delaware cases still pending against Musk and/or Tesla heading into 2025 extends well beyond Tornetta at both the state and federal levels.

By Ellen Bardash

5 minute read