• DeSantis v. Gardiner

    Publication Date: 2020-01-29
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth M. Roseman, Kenneth Roseman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Nicholas E. Skiles, Swartz Campbell LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68857

    Defendant was not entitled to a new trial because jury members could not testify as to matters intrinsic to their deliberations.

  • Baldwin v. New Castle County

    Publication Date: 2020-01-29
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Baldwin, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: Nicholas J. Brannick and Jordan S. Perry, New Castle County Government Center, New Castle, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68854

    Plaintiff's conveyance of her property eliminated her standing to contest fines and liens imposed by the county on the property where such sums attached to the property and were not personal to plaintiff.

  • Tibco Software Inc. v. Mediamath, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-22
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josiah R. Wolcott, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Matthew P. Ward and Nicholas T. Verna, Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, Wilmington, DE; Usher Winslett, Winslett Studnicky McCormick & Bomser LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: D68852

    The court had previously ruled that a genuine issue of material fact existed with regard to a liability limitation provision, so plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment.

  • BITG, LLC v. Palantir Techs., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-22
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D68847

    Limitations period tolled under discovery rule where broker did not connect its alleged injury to defendants' purported tortious conduct until defendants had to publicly disclose documents that allegedly showed defendants' efforts to block plaintiff broker out of the proposed transaction.

  • State of Delaware v. McMullen

    Publication Date: 2020-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bradley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hume, IV and Georgia C. Pham, Dep’t of Justice, Georgetown, DE for the state.
    for defendant: John P. Daniello and Michael A. Capasso, Office of the Public Defender, Georgetown, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68851

    In this bench trial, the court found defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and for possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

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  • Sherman v. Ellis

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick K. Gibson, Ippoliti Law Group, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Colleen D. Shields, Gary W. Lipkin and Alexandra D. Rogin, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, DE for de-fendant.

    Case Number: D68843

    In this legal malpractice matter involving an attorney's alleged failure to include a waiver provision in a premarital agreement, plaintiff failed to prove that his former wife would have accepted the term.

  • Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada v. Wilmington Savings Fund Soc'y

    Publication Date: 2020-01-01
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Simon E. Fraser and Thomas Francella, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi and Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68826

    Due to a former client conflict and the appearance of impropriety, disqualification of plaintiff's counsel was necessary to ensure the fairness of the litigation process.

  • State of Delaware v. Lovell

    Publication Date: 2020-01-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen McDonald, Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    for defendant: Michael W. Modica, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68825

    A search warrant lacked probable cause, because it did not contain a logical nexus between the items sought and the location searched.

  • State v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2020-01-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Annemarie H. Puit, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; John S. Taylor, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian J. Chapman, Law Office of Brian J. Chapman, Newark, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68824

    Motion to suppress evidence seized from search warrants granted where temporal scope of warrants was overly broad and where affidavits of probable cause failed to set forth specific factual allegations establishing a logical nexus between the cell phone being searched and the crime being investigated.

  • Ocimum Biosolutions (India) Ltd. v. AstraZeneca UK Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-25
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin S. Mann, Michael L. Vild and Christopher P. Simon, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; C. Ed-ward Polk, Jr., Polk Law PLLC, Ashburn, VA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael P. Kelly, Daniel M. Silver, Benjamin A. Smyth and Steven P. Wood, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dane H. Butswinkas of Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, D.C. for defendant.

    Case Number: D68819

    Certain red flags signaled the existence of information that would have led a prudent person to discover po-tential causes of action for breach of contract or trade secret violations.