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  • In re Delaware Pub. Sch. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-10
    Practice Area: Education Law
    Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard H. Morse, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, DE; Dwayne Bensing, ACLU Foundation of Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, DE; Saul P. Morgenstern, Peta Gordon, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Mary A. Jacobson, Adam J. Singer, Nicholas J. Brannick, New Castle County Law Department, New Castle, DE; Craig T. Eliassen, Gary E. Junge, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE; Krista M. Reale, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for defendants.
    Case Number: D69808

    Court denied application to take interlocutory appeal from order finding plaintiffs were entitled to an award of fees and costs in suit to challenge school district taxation, where the order did not fix the amount of the award, and an interlocutory appeal risked piecemeal litigation.

  • Yeilding v. Council of Ass'n of Unit Owners of Pelican Cove Condo.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-03
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dean A. Campbell, Law Office of Dean A. Campbell, P.A., Milton, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Richard E. Berl, Jr., Hudson, Jones, Jaywork & Fisher, LLC, Lewes, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69800

    Condominium owners' action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief failed where they failed to show that their rights under the condominium's governing documents had been irreparably impaired by the HOA's actions.

  • In Re PLX Tech. Inc. Stockholders Litig., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-05-03
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, David A. Knotts, Robbins Geller Rudman & Down, LLP, San Diego, CA; Kent Bronson, Milberg Tadler Phillips Grossman LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Patricia L. Enerio, Melissa N. Donimirski, Jamie L. Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Weidinger, Elizabeth Wilburn Joyce, Pinckney, Weidinger, Urban & Joyce, Greenville, DE; Lori Marks-Esterman, Renee M. Zaytsev, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D69798

    The court approved a modification to a class action settlement and a more efficient distribution method than the traditional notice-and-claim process.

  • In re Altaba, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-03
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul J. Lockwood, Arthur R. Bookout, Matthew P. Majarian, Kathryn S. Bartolacci, Gregory P. Ranzini, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; David E. Ross, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Christopher P. Simon, Kevin S. Mann, David G. Holmes, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington DE; E.F. Anthony Merchant, Q.C., Merchant Law Group LLP, Regina, Saskatchewan for claimant.
    Case Number: D69805

    Dissolved company was required to retain a security sufficient to cover the full amount of per se damages that could be imposed under statutory law governing pending litigation.

  • In The Matter of the Rehab. of Scottish RE (U.S.), Inc., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-05-03
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | State and Local Government
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Ladig, GianClaudio Finizio, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Diane J. Bartels, Wilmington, DE; James J. Black, III, Jeffrey B. Miceli, Mark W. Drasnin, Black & Gerngross, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Michael Busenkell, Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown, LLC, Wilmington, DE for Scottish RE (U.S.), Inc.
    for defendant: Marisa R. DeFeo, Randall S. MacTough, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher Viceconte, Gibbons P.C., Wilmington, DE; Daniel Hargraves, Freeborn & Peters LLP, New York, NY; Randall S. MacTough, Zarwin Baum Devito Kaplan Schaer Toddy, PC, Wilmington, DE; Joseph B. Cicero, Gregory Stuhlman, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; R. Stephen McNeill, D. Ryan Slaugh, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Willaim P. Bowden, Catherine A. Gaul, Ricardo Palacio, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., Paul S. Seward, Phillips, Goldman, Mclaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph C. Schoell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kathleen M. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John G. Harris, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE, Garrett B. Moritz, Elizabeth M. Taylor, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew A. Clemente, R. Bradley Drake, John Grothaus, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL; Joelle E. Polesky, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, Wilmington, DE, Travis S. Hunter, Renee M. Mosley, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jarret P. Hitchings, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph Larkin, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Barry M. Klayman, Simon Fraser, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Kevin J. Mangan, Nicholas T. Verna, Womble Bond Dickerson (US) LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jody Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter H. Kyle, John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE, for shareholders and third-parties.
    Case Number: D69799

    In this case of first impression, the court found that the liquidation standard did not operate as a per se requirement for plan approval.

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  • Pentwater Capital Mgmt. LP v. Kaz

    Publication Date: 2022-04-26
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Jason C. Jowers, Sarah T. Andrade, Justin C. Barrett, Bayard P.A. Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Kyle Lachmund, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Daniel Lynch, Lynch Thompson LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.
    Case Number: D69790

    The court held that any harm incurred by plaintiffs by allowing the forum selection cause issue to be litigated in Illinois was of their own making such that plaintiffs should not be allowed to enjoin the Illinois action.

  • Sorenson Impact Found. v. Cont'l Stock Transfer & Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-19
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric D. Selden, Anthony M. Calvano, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Cameron M. Hancock, Adam D. Wahlquist, Kirton McConkie, Salt Lake City, UT for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Peter B. Ladig, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Mark A. Harmon, Erin N. Teske, Hodgson Russ LLP, New York, NY; P. Clarkson Collins, Jr., K. Tyler O'Connell, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anna Rotman, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Houston, TX for defendants.
    Case Number: D69783

    The court, in this diverted merger consideration case, determined that defendant was not bound by a contract's forum selection clause because it was not a party to the contract and did not have sufficient contacts with Delaware to confer jurisdiction under the long-arm statute.

  • Cirba, Inc. v. Turbonomic, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-19
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: E-Commerce | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas E. McCann, Joseph B. Warden, Kelly Allenspach Del Dotto, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard T. Marooney, Brent P. Ray, Allison Altersohn, Matthew Bush, King & Spalding LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D69782

    The court held that the acquisition of defendant by a third-party constituted an attempted assignment, that plaintiff did not withhold consent unreasonably, and that the assignment to the third party that defendant attempted was a nullity.

  • Centene Corp. v. Acellion, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-12
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Health Care | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul J. Lockwood, Ryan M. Lindsay, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; William E. Ridgway, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Chicago, IL; Peter B. Morrison, Zachary M. Faigen, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael Rubin, Melanie Blunschi, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA; Serrin Turner, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D69775

    The court held plaintiffs' claims were subject to a forum selection clause for venue in three California counties.

  • Buckeye Partners, L.P. v. GT USA Wilmington, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-04-12
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jody C. Barillare, Amy M. Dudash, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael D. Blanchard, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Hartford, CT; Julie S. Goldemberg, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Leslie B. Spoltore, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas Poduslenko, Matthew S. Olesh, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas J. Elliott, Frederick P. Santarelli, Jack P. Elliott, Colin J. O’Boyle, Elliott Greenleaf, P.C., Blue Bell, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69774

    The court held that plaintiff who leased a dock from defendant proved that it was not a stevedore because it was not involved in the physical handling of cargo within the terminal property.