• Buck v. Viking Holding Mgmt. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Accounting | Advertising
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. LaRosa, LaRosa & Associates LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Peter H. Kyle, John L. Reed, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper US LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N20C-08-249 MAA CCLD

    Court rejected defendant's challenges to the court's factual findings where there was sufficient evidence to support plaintiff's allegations that a report justifying his termination was "manufactured."

  • Lamborn v. Coates

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Winston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Sergovic, Jr., Sergovic Carmen Weidman McCartney & Owens, P.A. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James H. Coates, defendant pro se.

    Case Number: N20C-02-260 PAW

    Court entered judgment against decedent's estate after the estate had failed to make payments on loans decedent had taken out.

  • Saunders v. Lightwave Logic, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Albert H. Manwaring, IV, Kirsten A. Zeberkiewicz, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph C. Schoell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, Megan E. Hunt, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-05-120 PRW CCLD

    Court declined to apply "inherently unknowable injury" doctrine to negligence and conversion claims arising from corporation's following of state law to escheat shares where plaintiff had ample opportunity to prevent the escheatment.

  • Belknap Holdings, LLC v. Midwest Prototyping, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah E. Delia, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Taylor A. Christensen, John P. DiTomo, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N23C-10-199 EMD CCLD

    Court dismissed action on summary judgment where plaintiffs' claims fell within the scope of the dispute resolution clause in the parties' asset purchase agreement.

  • The Spring League, LLC v. Frost Brown Todd LLP

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Insurance | Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Gallagher, Courtney R. Prinski, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., New Castle, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Eric D. Selden, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N24C-01-095 EMD CCLD

    Former law firm client failed to establish causal connection to damages where insurance policy secured by counsel expired due to client's failure to pay premiums before a "claim" under the policy arose.

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  • Armenta v. G/O Media, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lugg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth M. Locke, David Sillers, Jonathan R. Kaiman, Clare Locke LLP; Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Joseph Slaughter, Elizabeth S. Fenton, Lynn Oberlander, Lauren P. Russell, Ballard Spahr LLP for defendant.

    Case Number: N24C-02-051 SPL

    News article asserting that individual had worn black face and a Native American headdress at a sports event to disparage Black people and Native Americans constituted a disprovable expression of fact potentially subjecting the publisher to liability for defamation.

  • Buck v. Viking Holding Mgmt. Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Accounting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. LaRosa, LaRosa & Associates LLC, Wilmington, DE; Lawrence P. Schaefer, Bert Black, Mack H. Reed, Timothy S. Christensen, Anne C. Bolgert, Schaefer Halleen, LLC, Minneapolis, MN for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Peter H. Kyle, John L. Reed, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N20C-08-249 MAA CCLD

    Employer's reasons for terminating employee with cause were manufactured as employee's actions did not rise to the level of gross negligence or a breach of misconduct as the actions ultimately resolved the company's accounting issues, and thus employer did not have right to reclaim employee's equity interest for $0.

  • Isaac v. Cable News Network, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Electronics | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Robinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Poliquin, The Poliquin Firm, LLC, Dover, DE; Joseph D. Stanley, Schwartz & Schwartz, P.A., Dover, DE; Brian R. Della Roca, Compass Law Partners, Rockville, MD for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David J. Soldo, Morris James, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Katherine M. Bolger, Hilary Oran, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, New York, NY; Alison Schary, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Washington, DC; David J. Margules, Lauren P. Russell, Ballard Spahr, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kaitlin M. Gurney, Ballard Spahr, LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Bartholomew J. Dalton, Connor C. Dalton, Jessica L. Needles, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Abbe D. Lowell, Sanaya M. Tamboli, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, DC; David A. Kolansky, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY; Joseph M. Turk, BFPCC, Inc., Wilmington, DC; David J. Burman, John M. Devaney, Perkins Coie, LLP for defendants.

    Case Number: S22C-10-012 RHR

    News interviews were not defamatory where they did not directly mention or indirectly reference plaintiff and where plaintiff, a limited public figure, failed to show actual malice by the news outlets.

  • Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Newsmax Media, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Electronics | Manufacturing | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barrie, Kate Harmon, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. Erik Connolly, Nicole Wrigley, David D. Pope, William Walsh, Lee B. Muench, Lauran Tortorella, Olivia Sullivan, Meghan Golden, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: C. Barr Flinn, Kevin A. Guerke, Timothy E. Lengkeek, Lauren Dunkle Fortunato, Michael A. Laukaitis II, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Douglas D. Herrmann, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Bennet J. Moskowitz, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, New York, NY; Misha Tseytlin, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Chicago, IL; Howard M. Cooper, Joseph M. Cacace, Josh L. Launer, Maria A. Lombardi, Todd & Weld LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.

    Case Number: N21C-11-028 EMD

    Court granted reargument to clarify that Florida punitive damages law sufficiently defined "express malice" and required both actual and express malice for a jury to award punitive damages.

  • Feldman v. Marks

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Consulting | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Brennan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael Farnan, Rosemary J. Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen Shackelford, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Joe P. Yeager, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N21C-09-206 DJB

    Plaintiffs adequately proved claim of defamation where defendant's litigation filings that contained untrue statements had the effect of maligning plaintiffs' reputation and thus could be reasonably understood by a third party as defamatory.