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  • Weinberg v. Waystar, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven P. Wood, Andrew S. Dupre, Travis J. Ferguson, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Gallagher, Caroline M. McDonough, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sarah A. Zielinski, Amy Starinieri Gilbert, McGuire Woods LLP, Chicago, IL for appellee.
    Case Number: D70175

    Chancery court correctly interpreted use of "and" in call right provision in employee option agreements as being several rather than conjunctive, where "and" was used in a permissive sentence and a conjunctive interpretation would render other provisions of the agreement surplusage.

  • State v. Santiago

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Welch, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Suzanne Macpherson-Johnson, Office of Defense Services, Dover, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D70176

    Court invoked doctrine of jury lenity to allow operating vehicle causing death conviction to stand despite jury's failure to reach verdict on inattentive driving charge where the statute did not expressly require a conviction under the motor vehicle code and the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction.

  • Gregory v. State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Calvin Harmon Jr., Brett Bendistis Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: David C. Skoranski, Delaware Department of State, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: 1909016095(N)

    Court affirmed official misconduct conviction where evidence demonstrated that former city council president used his office to direct public funds to his non-profit entity.

  • In the Matter of a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-02-07
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. White, Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Kathleen V. Vavala, Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: John S. Malik, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
    Case Number: 111, 2022

    Where there was sufficient evidence to conclude that an attorney knowingly made misrepresentations to the court, the court adopted the presumptive sanction of suspension.

  • Stillwater Mining Co. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2023-01-31
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Mining and Resources
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Martha Sheehy, Sheey Law Firm, Billings, MT; Kyle A. Gray, Holland & Hart LLP, Billings, MT for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, William C. Perdue, Andrew T. Tutt, Samuel I. Ferenc, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; John C. Phillips Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips, Mclaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Jung H. Park, John J. Iacobucci Jr., Ropers Majeski, PC, New York, NY; John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Angelo G. Savino, Cozen O’Connor, New York, NY for appellees.
    Case Number: 24, 2022

    Superior court did not err in applying law of state of incorporation to resolution of directors' and officers' insurance coverage dispute where the policy applied to D&O liability across multiple jurisdictions, as state of incorporation had the strongest connection to the dispute.

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  • Daniel v. Hawkins

    Publication Date: 2023-01-31
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Teklits, Sara Barry, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey Alan Simes, Goodwin Proctor, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Richard I.G. Jones, John G. Harris, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: 184, 2022

    The court affirmed the trial court's ruling that an irrevocable proxy did not run with majority shares and dismissed appellant's arguments that the court improperly relied on "extrinsic" evidence contained in the proxy's addendum as well as the Third Restatement, finding that the addendum fell within the proxy's four corners and that the law cited from the Third Restatement accurately reflected the same legal principles that were in place at the time the proxy was established.

  • Coleman v. State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick J. Collins, Collins & Price, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Williams, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Dover, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: 83, 2022

    The court affirmed the Superior Court's judgment of conviction on the basis that the trial court properly denied defendant's request to issue a jury instruction informing the jury that the police officer's failure to properly annotate the location of evidence in a backpack constituted "missing evidence" under the Lolly/Deberry line of cases.

  • Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP v. Bandera Master Fund LP

    Publication Date: 2023-01-03
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory | Transportation
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Savitt, Sarah K. Eddy, Adam M Gogolak, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen P. Lamb, Andrew G. Gordon, Harris Fischman, Robert N. Kravitz, Carter E. Greenbaum, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Srinivas M. Raju, Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rolin P. Bissell, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Daniel G. Paterno, Eric A. Veres, Samuel D. Cordle, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: 2021-0700-PWG

    Member controlling general partner in Master Limited Partnership was correct party to determine whether opinion of counsel to exercise call right was acceptable, meaning that general partner and related entities were exculpated from liability to limited partners due to the presumption of good faith in reliance on opinion of counsel imposed by the limited partnership agreement.

  • Albence v. Higgin

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander S. Mackler, Allison J. McCowan, Zi-Xiang Shen, Victoria R. Sweeney, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: M. Jane Brady, Brady Legal Group LLC, Lewes, DE; Charlotte Davis, Noel H. Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Indianapolis, IA; Julianne E. Murray, Law Office of Murray, Phillips & Gay, Georgetown, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: 342, 2022

    Same-day voter registration and vote-by-mail statutes violated the Delaware constitution, which specifically enumerated the categories of citizens entitled to cast votes by absentee ballot and also effectively undercut enumerated rights to challenge voter registration records.

  • The Samuel J. Heyman 1981 Continuing Trust for Lazarus S. Heyman v. Ashland LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Lafferty, Miranda N. Gilbert, John P. DiTomo, Lauren N. Bennett, Thomas P. Will, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert N. Hochman, Heather Benzmiller Sultanian, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL; Eamon P. Joyce, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Andrew J. Rossman, Jonathon B. Oblak, Nicholas Hoy, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Christopher Viceconte, Gibbons, P.C., Wilmington DE; Jennifer A. Hradil, William S. Hatfield, Camille V. Otero, Joshua R. Elias, Gibbons, P.C., Newark, NY for appellees.
    Case Number: 279, 2021

    Court reversed Superior Court's ruling in a breach of contract case finding that the clear and unambiguous language of the stock-purchasing agreement allocated all off-site environmental cleanup liabilities to appellee.