• Ninivaggi v. Univ. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-05-09
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Scott M. Tucker, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sarah N. Westcot, Joshua D. Arisohn, Bursor & Fisher, P.A., New York, NY; Christopher P. Simon, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael L. Vild, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Blake G. Abbott, Eric M. Poulin, Roy Willey, Paul Doolittle, Anastopoulo Law Firm, LLC, Charleston, SC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: James D. Taylor, Jr., Charles E. Davis, Marisa R. De Feo, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 20-cv-1478-SB

    Motion to stay district court proceedings pending appeal of class certification denied where defendant would have an adequate remedy with continued proceedings and was unlikely to prevail in its appeal.

  • Favazza v. Kijakazi

    Publication Date: 2023-05-09
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Linarducci, Linarducci & Butler, PA, New Castle, DE; Karl E. Osterhout, Osterhout Berger Disability Law, Oakmont, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David C. Weiss, United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, Wilmington, DE; Brian C. O’Donnell, Regional Counsel, Annie Kernicky, Assistant Regional Counsel, Margaret W. Reed, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Social Security Administration, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-17-CJB

    ALJ erred in finding that disability applicant possessed a residual functional capacity where the reliable expert testimony did not support the factual findings that applicant was capable of performing manipulative tasks with her hands frequently or sitting for extended periods during the workday.

  • Marquinez v. Dole Food Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-02
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes
    Industry: Agriculture | Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 12-cv-695-RGA-SRF

    Plaintiffs moved to allocate in whole or in part the costs of the court-appointed expert witness on Ecuadorian law.

  • Newron Pharm. S.p.A. v. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-02
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory R. Booker, Nitika Gupta Fiorella, Elizabeth M. Flanagan, Sarah E. Jack, Fish & Richardson P.C. for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Carl D. Neff, Gurpreet Singh Walia, M.D., Esq., Gary Ji, Gurpreet S. Walia, FisherBroyles, LLP; Kenneth L. Dorsney, Cortlan S. Hitch, Morris James LLP; Timothy H. Kratz, George J. Barry III, Kratz & Barry LLP; Stamatios Stamoulis, Richard C. Weinblatt, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC; Shashank Upadhye, Brent Batzer, Yixin Tang, Upadhye Tang LLP; Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Renee Mosley Delcollo, Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Dmitry V. Shelhoff, Ph.D., Edward D. Pergament, Kenneth S. Canfield, Julia S. Kim, Pergament & Cepeda LLP for defendants.

    Case Number: 21-843-GBW

    Court rejected defendants' assertion of indefiniteness of disputed terms in claim construction, where the intrinsic record and prosecution history of the patents-in-suit provided objective boundaries that would inform a person of ordinary skill in the art about the scope of the patent claims, so the court adopted plaintiffs' proposed constructions after defendants declined to offer competing instructions or present any evidence regarding what they believed a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand the disputed terms to me

  • Corso v. Concordia Healthcare USA, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-25
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Scott Mann, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; David B. Gordon, Tiana A. Bey, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Alessandra Glorioso, Angela E. Dralle, William J. Miller, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-cv-353-SB

    Parties' "promissory note" functioned like an earnout contract, subjecting plaintiff's claims to the three-year statute of limitations for contract claims rather than the six-year limitations period.

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  • In re: Windhaven Top Ins. Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-04-25
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Consulting | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory L. Arbogast, Keith M. Lusby, Gebhardt & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark E. Felger, Barry M. Klayman, Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O'Connor, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 20-10524 (JTD)

    Bankruptcy court's jurisdiction to determine whether disputed funds were part of a debtor's estate did not "impair" the enforcement of state insurance laws and therefore did not trigger reverse preemption.

  • Elemica Inc. v. ecMarket Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-18
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John David Simmons, Keith A. Jones, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, Megan E. O’Connor, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard A. Saldinger, Landsman Saldinger Carroll, PLLC, Chicago, IL for defendant.

    Case Number: 1:21-cv-00893-SB

    Reasonable interpretation of ambiguous contract term for setting price for software services could support allegation that customer breached the contract by shifting discounted prices to services that should have been charged at full price.

  • Ninivaggi v. Univ. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-04-18
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Scott M. Tucker, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sarah N. Westcot, Joshua D. Arisohn, Bursor & Fisher, P.A., New York, NY; Christopher P. Simon, Michael L. Vild, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Blake G. Abbott, Eric M. Poulin, Roy Willey, Anastopoulo Law Firm, LLC, Charleston, SC; Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: James D. Taylor, Jr., Charles E. Davis, Marisa R. De Feo, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 20-cv-1478-SB

    Court certified class of university students claiming breach of contract from shift to online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, where the alleged breach conferred standing, the proposed class was ascertainable from the university's records, and the common questions of breach and impossibility of performance predominated.

  • Isaac v. Cable News Network, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-18
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Federal Government | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Poliquin, The Poliquin Firm, LLC, Dover, DE; Brian E. Della Rocca, Compass Law Partners, Rockville, MD for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David J. Soldo, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alison Schary, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC; Hilary Oran, Katherine M. Bolger, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY; Brian M. Boynton, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, James G. Touhey, Jr., Director, Torts Branch, Stephen R. Terrell, Attorney, Torts Branch, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; David J. Margules, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE, Lauren P. Russell, Ballard Spahr LLP, Washington, DC, Kaitlin M. Burney, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Bartholomew J. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Abbe David Lowell, Sanaya M. Tamboli, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, DC; David A. Kolansku, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 23-247 (MN)

    Court substituted the federal government for a defendant member of Congress when the underlying events occurred within the scope of the congressman's duties, which required dismissal of the claims for plaintiff's failure to exhaust his administrative remedies under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

  • The Boston Consulting Group Inc. v. GameStop Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-11
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting | Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler, Joseph L. Christensen, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Edward Totino, Nancy Nguyen Sims, Michael T. Boardman, Baker & Mckenzie LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John M. Seaman, E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss, Wilmington, DE; Trey Cox, Paulette C. Miniter, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-363-CJB

    Where contract detailed procedure by which parties were to negotiate undefined variable compensation fees, the contract created a duty to negotiate in good faith and allegations that customer failed to lodge reasoned objections or otherwise participate in the negotiation process was sufficient to state a claim for breach.