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  • 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.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

  • Data Logger Solutions, LLC v. Digi SmartSense, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Electronics | Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Krista M. Reale, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE; Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Glenn Ricketti, Margolis Edelstein, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David J. Soldo, K. Tyler O’Connell, Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Samuel E. Bashman, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric C. Liebeler, Kevin Kitchen, Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN for defendant.
    Case Number: N20C-10-121 EMD

    Court granted remittitur where expert testimony could only reasonably support a lower future damages award than granted by the jury.

  • Limitless Coffee, LLC v. Mott's, LLP

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jared T. Green, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A.; Christine E. Burke, Karpf, Karpf & Cerutti, P.C., Bensalem, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brett M. McCartney, Elizabeth A. Powers, Bayard, P.A.; Sarah T. Andrade, Wilmington, DE; Christoper Patton, Leo Park, Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.
    Case Number: N23C-12-229 EMD CCLD

    Breach of contract and implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing claims failed where parties chose not to incorporate commercially reasonable efforts clause into earnout provision.

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

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Manufacturing | Software | 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

    Plaintiff was not entitled to summary judgment of actual malice where jury could either find that information provided to news organization was conclusive of the truth or self-serving, creating a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the outlet recklessly disregarded the truth; however, there was insufficient evidence of a primary purpose to harm plaintiff, precluding a showing of express malice.

  • TAKRAF USA, Inc. v. FMC Tech., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Medinilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad J. Bracegirdle, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Chad I. Michaelson, Antoinette C. Oliver, Kate E. McCarthy, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Samuel T. Hirzel, II, Elena M. Sassaman, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: N24C-01-090 VLM CCLD

    Buyer plausibly alleged breach of asset purchase agreement where underlying litigation claimed that seller breached its contractual obligations to design and deliver a product, which in turn breached seller's representation that it was in compliance with its contractual obligations.