• Hemostemix Inc. v. Accudata Solutions, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-15
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew P. Denn, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher Oprison, DLA Piper LLP, Miami, FL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Kelly E. Farnan, Valerie A. Caras, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Daniel L. Buchholz, Holland & Knight LLP, Tampa, FL for defendant.

    Case Number: D69747

    Good faith assertion of a breach of contract claim served as a defense to a counterclaim of tortious interference with contractual relations.

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

    Publication Date: 2022-03-15
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Energy | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jody C. Barillare, Kelsey A. Bomar, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sabin Willett, Jonathan Albano, Christopher L. Carter, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Boston, MA; Edward H. Davis, Jr., Fernando J. Menendez, Cristina Vicens Beard, Sequor Law, P.A., Miami, FL; Garrett B. Moritz, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Kim, Marcus J. Green, Josef M. Klazen, Kobre & Kim LLP, New York, NY; Michael Sherwin, Kobre & Kim LLP, Washington, DC; Laura Davis Jones, Peter J. Keane, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alexander A. Yanos, Rajat Rana, Robert Poole, Alston & Bird, LLP, New York, NY; Marie M. Degnan, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Joshua S. Bolian, Keane A. Barger, Riley Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, Nashville, TN for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Marie M. Degnan, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Joshua S. Bolian, Keane A. Barger, Riley Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, Nashville, TN; 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; Angeles N. Ellis, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, DC; Samuel Taylor Hirzel, II, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph D. Pizzurro, Julia B. Mosse, Kevin A. Meehan, Juan 0. Perla, Curtis, Mallet-Provost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69748

    Government sanctions that blocked the transfer of shares did not preclude the court from authorizing the eventual issuance of writs of attachment, pending government approval, as mere authorization did not alter sanctioned body's continued ownership of the shares and therefore did not effect a prohibited transfer.

  • In re The Chemours Company Sec. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-08
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Jameson, Marcus E. Montejo, Stephen D. Dargitz, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE, liaison counsel for the class. Mary Sikra Thomas, Bruce E. Jameson Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Maya S. Saxena, Joseph E. White, III, Lester R. Hooker, Dianne M. Pitre, Saxena White P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Steven B. Singer, Kyla Grant, Saxena White P.A., White Plains, NY; David R. Kaplan, Saxena White P.A., San Diego, CA for lead plaintiff and for the class.
    for defendant: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey Gorris, Christopher Foulds, Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris P.A., Wilmington, DE for de-fendant.

    Case Number: D69736

    The court held that plaintiff met its pleading requirements when he alleged that defendant made false statements in annual and quarterly reports about maximum remediation liabilities

  • Gurmessa v. Genocide Prevention in Ethiopia, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tolessa Gurmessa, West Valley City, Utah, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Lauren Patrice Deluca, Timothy Michael Holly, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jennifer Marie Kinkus, William Edward Gamgort, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor LLP for defendants.

    Case Number: D69741

    Defamation claim could proceed where non-actionable opinions asserted or implied facts that could be proven as true or false.

  • Massie v. Gen. Motors LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-03-01
    Practice Area: Privacy
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake A. Bennett, Dean R. Roland, Cooch and Taylor, Wilmington, DE; Max S. Roberts, Bursor & Fisher, P.A., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Oderah C. Nwaeze, Faegre Drinker Biddle, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin J. Schladweiler, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John Nadolenco, Mayer Brown LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Archis A. Parasharami, Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC; Ian C. Ballon, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Justin A. MacLean, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69732

    Statutory invasion of privacy claims failed where website tracking software only collected anonymized data regarding visitor's use of the website and did not collect any personal information from users.

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  • AstraZeneca Pharm. LP v. Becerra

    Publication Date: 2022-03-01
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Federal Government | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Allon Kedem, Jeffrey L. Handwerker, Sally L. Pei, and Stephen K. Wirth, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian D. Netter, Michelle R. Bennett, Rachael L. Westmoreland, Kate Talmor, Jody Lowenstein, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: D69731

    Court overturned agency violation letter based on previously-withdrawn advisory opinion, such that the letter constituted shifting regulatory guidance and did not comply with rulemaking requirements under THE Administrative Procedure Act.

  • Wu v. E. Ocean Agriculture Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-22
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Agriculture
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Antranig Garibian, Garibian Law Offices, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Heng Wang, Wang, Gao & Associates, P.C., Metuchen, NJ for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Lauren E. M. Russell, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ying Liu, Carolyn Shields, Liu & Shields, LLP, Flushing, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69723

    Fair Labor Standards Act claims failed where farm workers fell within the statute's agricultural exemption from the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the act.

  • Apex Fin. Options LLC v. Gilbertson

    Publication Date: 2022-02-22
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69720

    The court found defendants' expert opinion ostensibly about valuation to be outside the scope of the expert's qualifications, to be unhelpful to the trier of fact, and to be unreliable because of reliance on irrelevant data.

  • Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau v. Nat'l Collegiate Master Student Loan Trust

    Publication Date: 2022-02-22
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Colin T. Reardon, Gabriel S.H. Hopkins, Jane M.E. Peterson, Stephen C. Jacques, Tiffany Hardy, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Megan Ix Brison, Michael A. Weidinger, Pinckney, Weidinger, Urban & Joyce LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69722

    The court certified two issues for appeal though there was no final judgment because they were both novel and controlling questions of law with substantial ground for difference of opinion and the appeal would advance the ultimate termination of the litigation.

  • Commonwealth Motor Inc. v. Garland

    Publication Date: 2022-02-22
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry: Automotive | Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Deckers, John P. Deckers, Wilmington, DE; Alex G. Isbell, Pallandino, Isbell & Caxazza, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Dylan J. Steinberg, Asst. US Attorney, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69721

    The court affirmed the decision that a sales engineer was not a specialized occupation such that petitioner did not meet the requirements for an I-129 work permit.