• ECB USA, Inc. v. Savencia, S.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joel S. Magolnick, John E. Kirkpatrick, Marko & Magolnick, P.A., Miami, FL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David W. Marston, Jr., Jody C. Barillare, Brian F. Morris, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Troy S. Brown, Su Jin Kim, Margot G. Bloom, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Michael J. Ableson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 19-cv-00731-GBW

    Tortious interference and conspiracy claims failed where there was insufficient evidence that defendant had an ulterior motive to interfere with plaintiff's business relationship.

  • Sierra v. Trafigura Trading LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Vild, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE; David A. Baron, Melvin White, Laina C. Lopez, Jared R. Butcher, Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP, Washington, DC; Richard W. Fields, Martin F. Cunniff, Edward Han, Fields Han Cunniff PLLC, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Michael J. Flynn, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alex J. Brackett, Caroline Schmidt Burton, Andrew P. Thornton-Dibb, Juliet B. Clark, McGuire Woods LLP, Richmond, VA for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-366-JLH-CJB

    Plaintiffs failed to plausibly state a claim of liability against a party for trafficking in plaintiffs' property allegedly wrongfully confiscated by the Cuban government where plaintiffs only asserted threadbare allegations of defendant's participation in the trafficking efforts.

  • United Atl. Ventures, LLC v. Odyssey Transfer &Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 24-838-GBW

    Court granted shareholder declaratory judgment ordering transfer agent to transfer shares upon notice of the expiration of lockup provisions, where shareholder would otherwise be exposed to potential financial harm if it waited to see whether transfer agent would treat other shareholders more preferably.

  • Design With Friends, Inc. v. Target Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry: E-Commerce | Retail | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas Daniel Herrmann, James Harry Stone Levine, Ben L. Wagner, Howard W. Wisnia, Ryan A. Lewis, Sean P. McConnell, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: AnnaMartina Tyreus Hufnal, Douglas Edward McCann, Kelly A. Del Dotto, Adam J. Kessel, Jessica Cohen-Nowak, Juanita R. Brooks, Katherine H. Reardon, Kayleigh E. McGlynn, Kenton W. Freeman, Kristen McCallion, Ryan McKay, Ryan V. Petty, Vivian Cheng, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 1:21-cv-01376-SB

    Court declined parties' cross-motions for summary judgment where distinctive look of functional website was entitled to copyright protection and the question of substantial similarity was sufficiently close to go to the jury.

  • FTE Networks, Inc. v. Szkaradek

    Publication Date: 2024-09-17
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bryson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-785-WCB

    Court denied motion for appointment of receiver where corporation's difficulties mostly harmed its customers, whose interests were more appropriately protected through consumer protection actions.

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  • In re: AIG Fin. Prods. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-11309-MFW

    No error in declining dismissal of bankruptcy petition where debtor was balance sheet insolvent and reasonably anticipated filing for bankruptcy absent reorganization.

  • Thomson Reuters Enter. Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-20
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry: E-Commerce | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Michael J. Flynn, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dale M. Cendali, Jeremy King, Eric A. Loverro, Joshua L. Simmons, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Miranda Means, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Boston, MA; Yungmoon Chang, Allyn Belusko, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David Ellis Moore, Bindu Ann George Palapura, Andrew L. Brown, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Warrington Parker, Joachim B. Steinberg, Jacob Canter, Christopher J. Banks, Anna Z. Saber, Crowell & Moring LLP, San Francisco, CA; Mark A. Klapow, Crinesha B. Berry, Lisa Kimmel, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C.; Emily T. Kuwahara, Jordan Ludwig, Crowell & Moring LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Ryan Henry Seewald, Crowell & Moring LLP, Denver, CO for defendant.

    Case Number: 1:20-cv-613-SB

    Expert opinion on liability was not unreliable where it detailed how data for comparison was selected, as limited qualitative analysis did not automatically render the opinion unreliable.

  • Gray v. Allen Harim Foods, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-08-20
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Slomsky
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-1172

    Former employee adequately pled constructive discharge claim by alleging that she was forced to accept transfer to a position that effectively constituted a demotion and train her replacement who was hired while she was on Family and Medical Leave Act leave, which constituted sufficiently intolerable working conditions that would cause a reasonable person to resign.

  • In re: Insys Therapeutics Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Legal Services | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek C. Abbott, Matthew O. Talmo, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric D. Madden, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, Dallas, TX; Keith Y. Cohan, Ryan M. Goldstein, Morgan M. Menchaca, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, Austin, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Michael W. McDermott, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard C. Pedone, Brian T. Kelly, Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.

    Case Number: 19-11292 (JTD)

    Court determined that former officer was obligated to repay advanced legal expenses where he was ultimately convicted on a single racketeering conspiracy charge that included the same alleged predicate racketeering activities as the first indictment, undermining claims of partial success in the criminal prosecution.

  • In re: BYJU's Alpha, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-30
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pieter Van Tol, Christoper R. Bryant, Elizabeth Carter, Hogan Lovells US, LLP, New York, NY; David Massey, Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Miami, FL; Evan T. Miller, Saul Ewing LLP, Wilmington, DE; Turner N. Falk, Saul Ewing LLP, Philadelphia, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: Susheel Kirpalani, Benjamin Finestone, William B. Adams, Daniel Holzman, Jianjian Ye, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY; Robert S. Brady, Kenneth J. Enos, Jared W. Kochenash, Timothy R. Powell, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; George W. Hicks, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC; Seth M. Cohen, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, San Francisco, CA; Patrick J. Nash, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Brian Schartz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Laura Davis Jones, Peter J. Keane, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 2410140 (JTD)

    Court denied stay of bankruptcy court contempt and preliminary injunction orders pending appeal where defendants were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claims against the orders and where the orders would not irreparably harm defendants by requiring them to produce ordered discovery or merely preventing them from transferring or using claimed funds under their control.