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  • First Solar, Inc. v. Nat'l Union First Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2022-03-29
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam S. Ziffer, Meredith Elkins, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & Mckenna LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, Arthur Luk, Omomah Abebe, Kolya D. Glick, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; John C. Phillips, Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips Mclaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Charles C. Lemley, Kim Melvin, Anna Schaffner, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C. for appellees.
    Case Number: D69760

    The court agreed with the lower court that plaintiff's claim was excluded from coverage but held that whether a claim related back to an earlier claim was decided by the language of the policy, not the generic fundamentally identical standard used by the lower court.

  • Zayas v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-22
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary S. Nitsche, Joel H. Fredericks, Weik, Nitsche & Dougherty, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: John J. Klusman, Megan E. Traynor, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69755

    Board erred in accepting employer's medical expert's testimony after he refused to testify about claimant's treatment by physician under unrelated disciplinary investigation, and also erred in refusing to admit that provider's medical records into evidence.

  • Cox Commc'ns, Inc. v. T-Mobile US, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-15
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen C. Norman, Jaclyn C. Levy, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Geoffrey P. Eaton, Matthew L. DiRisio, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, DC; Mitchell G. Stockwell, Joel D. Bush, II, Jeffrey H. Fisher, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Hallie B. Levin, Peter G. Neiman, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY; John J. Butts, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA for appellee.
    Case Number: D69746

    The court found that the lower court erred in its interpretation of a section of the settlement agreement between the parties, finding that the subject language was a Type II agreement that left open terms to be negotiated in the future.

  • Brock v. Dep't of Serv. for Children, Youth, & Their Families

    Publication Date: 2022-02-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Renzulli, Law Office of Edward J. Fornias, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathon C. Harting, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Renee D. Duval, Office of the Child Advocate, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69724

    There was no error in relying on parent's prior involuntary termination of rights to other children in terminating parental rights to another child where evidence supported finding that termination was in the child's best interests.

  • Page v. Oath, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: Consulting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean J. Bellew, Bellew LLC, Wilmington, DE; Todd V. McMurtry, Hemmer DeFrank Wessels, PLLC, Ft. Mitchell, KY; K. Lawson Pedigo, Miller Keffer & Pedigo, PLLC, Dallas, TX for plaintiff below, appellant.
    for defendant: T. Brad Davey, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Elbert Lin, David M. Parker, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Richmond, VA; Jonathan D. Reichman, Jennifer L. Bloom, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, New York, NY, for defendant below, appellee.
    Case Number: D69696

    The court held that plaintiff was required to plead actual malice in his defamation suit against defendant who owned online news organizations and published articles concerning investigation into plaintiff's connection to Russian figures because the articles were substantially true.

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  • Ace Am. Ins. Co. v. Rite Aid Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-25
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Pharmaceuticals | Retail
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE;Marc S. Casarino, White & Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan D. Hacker, ; O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Michael S. Shuser, Blair E. Kaminsky, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York, NY for, appellants.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gerald P. Konkel; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, D.C.; William R. Peterson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Houston, TX; Christopher M. Popecki, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles, CA for appellees.
    Case Number: D69688

    The court held that the suit against the defendants for which plaintiffs sought defense coverage under its liability policy did not allege damages that were covered by the insurance policy such that the insurer had no duty to defend. Reversed decision of lower court.

  • Valley Joist BD Holdings, LLC v. EBSCO Indus., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Montgomery-Reeves
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Cicero, Aidan T. Hamilton, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey H. Zaiger, Judd Lindenfeld, Zaiger LLC, Stamford, CT for appellant.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Sara Toscano, Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69664

    The court held that appellant pled fraud with sufficient particularity where it alleged that appellee's transition employee told appellant's employee that the structural problems with a building were known for months prior to closing on the sale of the building and that there were repair estimates consistent with that knowledge.

  • Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. v. XL Ins. Am., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; David B. Goodwin, Christine S. Haskett, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Denn, Kelly Freund, John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Rachel A.H. Horton, DLA Piper LLP (US), Philadelphia, PA; Aidan M. McCormack, DLA Piper (US), New York, NY for appellee.
    Case Number: D69658

    The court held that the Superior Court erred when it ruled that post-judgment interest and pre-judgment interest should be calculated using the same rate.

  • AB Stable VIII LLC v. MAPS Hotels & Resorts One LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Sarah A. Clark, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Theodore N. Mirvis, William Savitt, Sarah K. Eddy, Ryan A. McLeod, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Theodore B. Olson, Amir C. Tayrani, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Adam H. Offenhartz, Marshall R. King, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Michael A. Barlow, April M. Kirby, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Michael B. Carlinsky, William B. Adams, Christopher D. Kercher, Rollo C. Baker IV, Todd G. Beattie, Jonathan E. Feder, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Kap-You Kim, Peter & Kim Attorneys at Law, Seoul, South Korea for appellees.
    Case Number: D69651

    Seller of hotel businesses breached ordinary course covenant by making material changes to operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where the covenant did not contain a material adverse event exception and where seller failed to obtain buyer's consent to the changes.

  • Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Univ. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: Education
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for Appellants.
    for defendant: William E. Manning, James D. Taylor, Jr., Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69650

    The court agreed with the Superior Court that the papers requested by appellants under the Freedom of Information Act were not public records where the content of the papers did not relate to the expenditure of public funds.