• First Wheel Mgmt., Ltd. v. Inventist, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean T. O’Kelly, Gerard M. O’Rourke, O’Kelly & O’Rourke, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Andrew C. Mayo, Catherine A. Gaul, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin J. Hodges, Devra R. Cohen, Foster Garvey PC, Seattle, WA for defendants.

    Case Number: 17-1059 (MN)

    Court struck damages claim for restitution based on breach of contractual obligation to deliver IP where plaintiff's exercise of its option to license the IP meant there was a partial breach at most and plaintiff had retained the benefits of defendants' partial performance.

  • Cooper v. Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care of Delaware, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raj Srivatsan, McGivney, Kluger, & Cook, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dawn C. Doherty, Brett Thomas Norton, Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-1370-RGA

    Court dismissed survival and wrongful death action filed in federal court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where decedent had same citizenship as defendants, destroying complete diversity.

  • CCSB Fin. Corp. v. Totta

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin J. Connors, Aaron E. Moore, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; Michael H. McGinley, Rick S. Horvath, Stuart T. Steinberg, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Brett A. Scher, Patrick M. Kennell, Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin H. Davenport, Eric J. Juray, John G. Day, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 2021-0173

    Chancery court correctly disregarded corporate charter provision deeming board action "conclusive and binding" where the provision had the effect of exculpating directors from liability for breaching their duty of loyalty to the corporation.

  • In Re: Main Street Business Funding, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Commercial Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan M. Ernst, David M. Klauder, Bielli & Klauder, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Ricardo Palacio, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 19-10598 (BLS)

    Finding that appellant creditor's claims sounded in tort rather than contract, the court determined that Pennsylvania's Uniform Commercial Code applied and required that for commercial tort claims, in order to be enforceable, a security agreement must provide a specific description of the collateral.

  • Backertop Licensing LLC v. Canary Connect, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Consumer Products | Electronics
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel: Jimmy C. Chong, Chong Law Firm, PA, Wilmington, DE; Ronald W. Bums, Frisco, Texas for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Alan Richard Silverstein, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark K. Suri, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL; Jeremy Douglas Anderson, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Ricardo J. Bonilla, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-572-CFC

    The court's inherent power to manage its docket and orderly and expeditiously dispose of cases extends to requiring nonparty out-of-state witnesses to personally appear before the court.

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  • Mirtech, Inc. v. Agrofresh, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Agriculture | Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Glenn A. Brown, Real World Law, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs/counter-defendants.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant/counter-plaintiff.

    Case Number: 20-1170-RGA

    Finding that the plaintiffs/counter defendants would suffer legal prejudice if the remaining counterclaims were dismissed without prejudice, the court dismissed the remaining counterclaims with prejudice.

  • In re: TK Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-17
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Automotive | Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley B. Tarr, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; David J. Molton, Gerard T. Cicero, Brown Rudnick LLP, New York, NY; Kami E. Quinn, Emily P. Grim, Sarah A. Sraders, Gilbert LLP, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Evan T. Miller, Daniel N. Brogan, Steven D. Adler for appellee.

    Case Number: 17-11375 (BLS)

    Bankruptcy court correctly dismissed adversary proceeding that was essentially an insurance coverage dispute, rendering the matter a non-core proceeding that was also subject to a forum selection clause in the underlying insurance policy.

  • Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. V. Sarpeta Therapeutics, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-17
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy M. Dudash, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Amanda S. Williamson, Christopher J. Betti, Krista L. Venegas, Maria E. Doukas, Zachary Miller, Guylaine Hache, Michael T. Sikora, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, IL; Eric Kraeutler, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Megan E. Dellinger, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Charles E. Lipsey, J. Derek , Ryan P. O'Quinn, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Reston, VA; William B. Raich, Michael J. Flibbert, Yoonhee Kim, Yoonjin Lee, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alissa K. Lipton, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.

    Case Number: 21-1015-GBW

    Claim that patent terms were indefinite due to being susceptible to multiple meanings for a POSA rejected where the scientific evidence demonstrated that a POSA would only understand the term as having one meaning, and where defendant attempted to incorporate limiting language not supported by the intrinsic record.

  • Rich v. Univ. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele D. Allen, Delia Clark, Allen & Associates, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James D. Taylor, Jr., Jessica M. Jones, Juliana G. Clifton, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-27-RGA

    Title VII race discrimination claims failed where plaintiff failed to identify similarly situated co-workers of other races who committed the same type of misconduct as plaintiff but were not terminated like plaintiff.

  • OI European Group B.V. v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jody Barillare, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan M. Albano, Christopher L. Carter, P. Sabin Willett, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Boston, MA; Edward H. Davis, Jr., Fernando J. Menendez, Cristina Vicens Beard, Sequor Law, P.A., Miami, FL; Laura Davis Jones, Peter James Keane, Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl & Jones, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alexander A. Yanos, Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky, Rajat Rana, Robert H. Poole, II, Alston & Bird LLP, New York, NY; Marie McManus Degnan, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Joshua S. Bolian, Keane A. Barger, Riley Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, Nashville, TN; R. Craig Martin, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; James E. Berger, Charlene C. Sun, Joshua S. Wan, Katherine A. Ibarra, Tamara Hilmi, Charlotte M. Westbrook, DLA Piper LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sergio J. Galvis , Joseph E. Neuhaus, James L. Bromley, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY; Angela N. Ellis, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, DC; Samuel Taylor Hirzel, II, Jamie Lynne Brown, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph D. Pizzurro, Kevin A. Meehan, Juan 0. Perla, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 19-290-LPS

    Foreign petroleum company was the alter ego of competing factions of the foreign government where each faction controlled the company's operations in various countries around the world and directly benefitted from the profits of those operations and where each faction expressly described the company and its subsidiaries as assets of the state.