• United States v. Foster

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Weiss, Graham L. Robin, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, Wilmington, DE for the government.
    for defendant: Peter A. Levin, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: D69205

    The court denied defendant's motions to dismiss, suppress, compel the production of documents, and limit certain evidence at trial.

  • SLF Holdings, LLC v. Uniti Fiber Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-18
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Emily A. Letcher, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Edward S. Sledge IV, Dylan C. Black, Zachary A. Madonia, Emily M. Ruzic, Stanley E. Blackmon, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Bir-mingham, AL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jerome E. Speegle, Anthony M. Hoffman, Speegle, Hoffman, Holman & Holifield, LLC, Mobile, AL; Blake Rohrbacher, Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Edmund Polubinski III, Brian M. Burnovski, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69196

    The court granted defendants' motions to dismiss plaintiff's federal securities and state law claims.

  • Clemons v. New Castle County

    Publication Date: 2020-11-11
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele D. Allen, Allen & Associates, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Mary A. Jacobson, Laura Thomas Hey, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69182

    Americans with Disabilities Act claim failed where employee did not meet standard of "qualified individual" as request for leave without information on expected progress of treatment or anticipated date of return constituted a request for open-ended leave that was an unreasonable request for accommodation.

  • Internet Media Interactive Corp. v. Shopify Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Pazuniak, O’Kelly & Ernst, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark Reiter, Y. Audrey Yang, Brian M. Buroker, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: D69177

    Based on the totality of the circumstances, the court declined to award defendant its attorney fees follow-ing plaintiff's voluntary dismissal of the complaint with prejudice.

  • 3G Licensing, S.A. v. Blackberry Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lexie G. White, Hunter Vance, Susman Godfrey, LLP, Houston, TX; Andreas C. Healy, Jenna G. Farleigh, Susman Godfrey, LLP, Seattle, WA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John V. Gorman, Amy M. Dudash, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric Kraeutler, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Robert C. Bertin, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Washington, DC; John W. Shaw, Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; Yar R. Chaikovsky, Bruce Yen, Alexander H. Lee, Radhesh Devendran, Paul Hastings LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Jack B. Blumenfeld, Stephen J. Kraftschik, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Taylor Ludlam, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Raleigh, NC: Steven D. Moore; Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, San Francisco, CA; Russel A. Korn, Richard W. Goldstucker, Courtney S. Dabbiere, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Atlanta, GA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69174

    Defendants' motion for summary judgment on patent infringement claims denied where evidence could allow jury to find that patents-in-suit were directed to patentable subject matter and that the accused products infringed upon the patent claims under the doctrine of equivalents.

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  • M.W. v. Lynch

    Publication Date: 2020-11-04
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter L. Frattarelli, Kevin F. Shaw, Archer & Grenier, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Stephen M. Ferguson, Kenneth L. Wan, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69179

    Plaintiffs adequately alleged certain claims for personal liability against officials at a detention facility.

  • Rath v. Vita Sanotec, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-28
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Enrique D. Arana Carlton Fields, P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Richard D. Heins, Tiffany Geyer Lydon, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE

    Case Number: D69169

    The court awarded attorney fees to plaintiff in this trademark matter, because it was an exceptional case and defendant had litigated the action in an unreasonable manner.

  • Berhmann v. Brandt

    Publication Date: 2020-10-21
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan M. Ernst, O’Kelly Ernst & Joyce, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Thomas J. McKenna, Gregory M. Egleston, Gainey McKenna & Egleston, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Paul J. Lockwood, Jenness E. Parker, Veronica B. Bartholomew, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69158

    Dismissal of derivative complaint for failure to adequately plead demand futility and failure to state a claim granted without prejudice, where plaintiffs were given leave to move to amend their complaint and assert amendments and additional allegations that would cure the pleading deficiencies of their complaint.

  • Citrix Sys., Inc. v. Workspot, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-21
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Denise S. Kraft, Brian A. Biggs, Erin E. Larson, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Michael G. Strapp, Larissa Bifano, Safraz Ishmael, DLA Piper LLP (US), Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven J. Balick, Andrew C. Mayo, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Ronald F. Lopez, Nixon Peabody LLP, San Francisco, CA; Jennifer Hayes, Nixon Peabody LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Matthew A. Weber, Angelo Christopher, Nixon Peabody LLP, Chicago IL for defendant.

    Case Number: D69159

    Additional monetary sanctions and striking of equitable defenses ordered against defendant who submitted declaration known to the declarant to be materially false, when defendant failed to conduct a diligent investigation into the declaration and failed to promptly withdraw the declaration upon indications the declaration might have been false.

  • Rome Enter., Inc. v. ReBath, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-10-21
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction | Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Renck, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Wayne A. Mack, J. Manly Parks, William Shotzbarger, Raymond A. Vanderhyden, Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jason C. Jowers, Stephen B. Brauerman, Elizabeth A. Powers, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey H. Wolf, Lauren Elliott Stine, Kristen M. Arredondo, Quarles & Brady LLP, Phoenix, AZ for defendant.

    Case Number: D69165

    The court denied a party's motion to vacate an arbitrator's award where that party had consented to the arbitrator's authority to issue decisions on certain matters.