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  • Campbell v. Navient Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Education | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Georkeshia Denise Campbell, Lancaster, CA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joelle Eileen Polesky, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Navient Corporation. David C. Weiss, United States Attorney, and Jesse S. Wenger, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE for defendant United States Department of Education.
    Case Number: D68679

    Constitutional and civil rights claims against the Department of Education and a student loan servicer failed where there was no basis to waive the department's sovereign immunity and the loan servicer was not a state actor and was not alleged to have acted in a discriminatory matter.

  • Vatidis v. Trimble, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd C. Schiltz, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul R. Mastrocola, Andrea L. Marti and Michael A. DeIulis, Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston, MA; Scott R. Haiber, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Baltimore, MD; Pieter Van Tol, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joel Friedlander, Christopher M. Foulds and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Teresa H. Michaud, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant.
    Case Number: D68685

    Defendant failed to meet the heightened pleading standard with regard to its fraud counterclaims, and it did not establish standing to pursue a claim under foreign copyright law.

  • Wayne County Employees' Ret. Sys. v. Mavenir, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Securities Litigation
    Industry: Legal Services | State and Local Government | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D67672

    The court granted an order appointing the lead plaintiff in this class action suit and approving the plaintiff's choice of counsel, despite defendants' objections due to a conflict of interest involving the law firm that filed the complaint.

  • Keystone Assocs. LLC v. Fulton

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy R. Dudderar and Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; David J. Jordan and Michael R. Menssen, Stoel Rivers LLP, Salt Lake City, UT for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven S. Scholes and Peter B. Allport, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Chicago, IL; John R. Gerstein, Clyde & Co. US LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.
    Case Number: D67677

    Securities fraud claim dismissed where there was no express assignment of a securities fraud claim to confer standing and where the complaint expressly alleged that investment was based on a statement that was not a false representation.

  • Gunn v. Over

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P.O. O’Brien, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    for defendant: N/A
    Case Number: D67671

    Defendant was not a "debt collector" within the meaning of the Fair Debt Collection Practice Act, and plaintiff failed to suffi-ciently state a claim for relief.

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  • Cropper v. Danberg

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Evan O. Williford and Andrew J. Huber, The Williford Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Ryan P. Connell, Deputy Attorney General, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D67670

    An inmate had standing to assert claims against prison officials because his injuries were fairly traceable to the alleged bad acts of those officials.

  • Sycamore Partners Mgmt., L.P. v. Endurance Am. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-14
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Carla M. Jones and Tracey E. Timlin, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; John E. Failla, Na-than R. Lander and Alyse Stach, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Barry M. Klayman and Michael R. Davisson, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE and Los Angeles, CA for defendant Starr In-demnity & Liab. Co. Elena C. Norman, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael F. Perlis and Cary J. Economou, Locke Lord LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant Markel American Ins. Co.
    Case Number: D68669

    A federal district court did not have "related to" jurisdiction over this insurance coverage dispute and abstention was required under federal law, so it remanded the matter to state court.

  • Evans v. IMO Indus., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-31
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Defense | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68648

    Plaintiff's engineering expert's testimony in asbestos litigation not precluded to the extent the expert's lack of direct experience in procurement was not disqualifying and where evidence relied upon by the expert merely bolstered his original opinion.

  • AOS Holding Co. v. Bradford White Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Hardware
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Phillips, Jr. and David A. Bilson, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; S. Edward Sarskas, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Milwaukee, WI; Kenneth M. Albridge III, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Madison, WI for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Andrew J. Koopman and Christopher H. Blaszkowski, RatnerPrestia, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin E. Leace, RatnerPrestia, King of Prussia, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: D68615

    Patent claim was not struck for indefiniteness when a person of ordinary skill in the art would sufficiently understand how to measure the term in the context of the claimed invention.

  • In re: Vantage Drilling Int'l

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Mining and Resources
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68619

    Parties in this bankruptcy matter lacked standing to object to debtor's plan of reorganization.