• Ginsberg v. Harleysville Worcester Ins. Cop.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-19
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam F. Wasserman, Ciconte Wasserman & Scerba, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Cynthia G. Beam, Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 431, 2023

    State insurance law limiting coverage from multiple separate policies issued by the same insurer to two or more members of the same household to the highest limit of liability did not preclude stacking of uninsured motorist coverage where each household member's policy expressly permitted stacking, making the stacked coverage the highest limit.

  • GMG Ins. Agency v. Margolis Edelstein

    Publication Date: 2024-10-22
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Griffiths
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. Ippoliti, Christopher Isaac, Ippoliti Law Group, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Sally J. Daugherty, Salmon, Ricchezza, Singer & Turchi, LLP, Wilmington, DE; George M. Vinci, Jr., David B. Picker, Spector Gadon Rosen Vinci P.C., Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: 213, 2023

    Trial court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant in legal malpractice action where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether counsel negligently handled discovery and failed to pursue a summary judgment motion to end the litigation against plaintiff.

  • Ravindran v. GLAS Trust Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Education | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Cicero, Ryan M. Lindsay, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sheron Korpus, David M. Max, Sondra D. Grigsby, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Brock E. Czeschin, Susan Hannigan Cohen, Nicole M. Henry, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lauren K. Neal, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 463, 2023

    Although appellants raised the parties' contract's forum selection clause, they failed to explicitly argue that a non-signatory litigant was bound to the clause and thus waived the issue on appeal.

  • SARN SD3, LLC v. Czechoslovak Group A.S.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting | Defense | Electronics
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mackenzie M. Wrobel, Coleen W. Hill, Duane Morris, Wilmington, DE; Ryan E. Borneman, Robert M. Palumbos, Ryan F. Monahan, Duane Morris, Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip Trainer, Jr., Tiffany Geyer Lydon, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Kenneth J. Pfaehler, Anna Isernia, Dentons US LLP, Washington, DC for appellee.

    Case Number: 291, 2023

    Trial court correctly denied relief to revise judgment where documents were not intentionally withheld by defendant and were in plaintiff's possession before the trial court's judgment and thus did not constitute newly discovered evidence.

  • In re Dell Tech., Inc. Class V Stockholders Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-27
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Domenico Minerva, Joseph Cotilletta, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; David M. Cooper, Silpa Maruri, George T. Phillips, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; William R. Sears, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Chad Johnson, Noam Mandel, Desiree Cummings, Robert Gerson, Jonathan Zweig, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy S. Friedman, David F.E. Tejtel, Christopher M. Windover, Lindsay La Marca, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for appellee.

    Case Number: 349, 2023

    Court upheld counsel fee of 26 percent of $1 billion settlement where Delaware disfavored per se rules governing reasonableness of fee awards and chancery court adequately explained the reasonable value of the award.

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  • In re COVID-Related Restrictions on Religious Serv.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen J. Neuberger, Thomas S. Neuberger, The Neuberger Firm, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Thomas C. Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Zi-Xiang Shen, Zachary S. Stirparo, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 354, 2023

    Suit challenging the constitutionality of COVID-19 restrictions on houses of worship filed months after such restrictions were lifted was not a justiciable controversy, and state officials were immune from damages for any constitutional violations where they exercised their discretion to impose the conditions in a good faith effort to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Exit Strategy, LLC v. Festival Retail Fund BH, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-06
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate | Retail
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas D. Herrmann, James H.S. Levine, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew W. Zepeda, Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz, Hogan & Martin, Los Angeles, CA for appellee.

    Case Number: 318, 2023

    Special limited partner was not entitled to distribution from sale of partnership's primary asset where partnership was entitled to deduct defeasance costs to satisfy the mortgage to sell the property as a "loan interest cost."

  • Kellner v. AIM ImmunoTech Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Teresa Goody Guillén, Richard Raile, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Washington, DC; Marco Molina, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Costa Mesa, CA; Alexandra L. Trujillo, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Houston, TX for appellant.
    for defendant: William R. Denny, Matthew F. Davis, Nicholas D. Mozal, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Eric J. Nascone, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stefan Atkinson, Mary T. Reale, Mason E. Reynolds, Joseph Taglienti, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Michael F. Williams, Don Hong, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington DC for appellees.

    Case Number: 3, 2024

    Court refused to enforce facially valid amended bylaws where board adopted them primarily to thwart stockholders' efforts to nominate opposing candidates to board.

  • Albence v. Mennella

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Jennings, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Alexander S. Mackler, Patricia A. Davis, Kenneth Wan, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Ginger D. Anders, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC for appellants.
    for defendant: M. Jane Brady, Brady Legal Group LLC, Lewes, DE; Noel H. Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Alexandria, VA for appellees.

    Case Number: 120, 2024

    Plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge voting procedures where one was not a candidate in the upcoming election cycle and the other's role as inspector of elections did not implicate the challenged procedures.

  • Fowler v. Perdue, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-09
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walt F. Schmittinger, Schmittinger and Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrea C. Panico, Megan E. Murray, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 412, 2023

    COVID-19 was not an occupational disease where the risk of getting sick was not a peculiar risk of the worker's employment or work environment but rather was a general risk faced by all workers.