• Sapp v. Indus. Action Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Ambro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maureen Farrell, Adam T. Muery, Muery & Farrell, Austin, TX for appellants
    for defendant: David J. Baldwin, Berger Harris, Wilmington, DE; Irving M. Geslewitz, Edward D. Shapiro, Much Law, Chicago, IL for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-2181

    District court erred in ordering arbitration where dispute resolution clause imposing narrow scope of review of solely factual issues during a short window of time indicated that the dispute resolution provision constituted an expert determination rather than an arbitration.

  • Arcelik A.S. v. EI DuPont de Nemours & Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-20
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Greenaway
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher F. Cannataro, April M. Ferraro, John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss, Wilmington, DE; Christopher M. Ryan, Shearman & Sterling, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon R. Harper, John A. Sensing, Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-2634

    Global parent corporation did not qualify as the manufacturer of allegedly defective components which were made by a foreign subsidiary using materials produced by a third-party supplier, where the parent did not control the day-to-day manufacturing operations and merely established product standards.

  • Maxus Liquidating Trust v. YPF S.A.., L.P.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Goldblatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-50489 (CTG)

    The court denied plaintiff's motion to compel the production of documents protected under the attorney-client privilege doctrine.

  • 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.

  • Croda Inc. v. New Castle County

    Publication Date: 2022-08-09
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Forsten, Pamela J. Scott, Elizabeth S. Fenton, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen A. Swedlow, Athena D. Dalton, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Chicago, IL for appellant.
    for defendant: Mary A. Jacobson, Nicholas J. Brannick, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69910

    Lack of proper notice of zoning amendment could not render challenge to county ordinance timely under statute of repose where tolling was not applicable to statutes of repose.

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  • State ex rel. Jennings v. Monsanto Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-26
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christian Douglas Wright, Ralph K. Durstein, III, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Amy Williams-Derry, Daniel Mensher, Alison S. Gaffney, Keller Rohrback L.L.P., Seattle, WA; Keil Mueller, Steve Larson, Emily Johnson, Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter P.C., Portland, OR for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Christian J. Singewald, Timothy S. Martin, Daryll Hawthorne-Searight, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas M. Goutman, David S. Haase, Kim Kocher, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Philadelphia, PA; Adam E. Miller, Susan L. Werstak, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., St. Louis, MO; Richard L. Campbell, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Boston, MA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69901

    State's regulatory control over public lands and waters was insufficient to confer standing to assert a trespass claim arising from alleged environmental contamination where trespass required exclusive possession.

  • In re: TPC Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-19
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Goldblatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69889

    Court declined to read anti-subordination clause into note agreement where the agreement permitted a supermajority of holders to release the collateral securing the note, since releasing collateral would be a much greater intrusion into noteholders' rights than subordination.

  • In re: Maxus Energy Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Sontchi
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. Christopher Shore, White & Case LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Robert J. Deheny, Curtis S. Miller, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Corey D. Berman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Miami, FL; John J. Kuster, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Matthew McGuire, Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey A. Rosenthal, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69876

    Court denied parties' cross-motions on fraudulent transfer and alter ego claims where there were genuine issues of material fact regarding whether transfers could fall under definition of fraudulent transfers and whether transfers were undertaken for legitimate purposes.

  • Univar Solutions Inc. v. Geisenberger

    Publication Date: 2022-06-21
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Distribution and Wholesale | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew J. Rifino, Travis Ferguson, McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jameel S. Turner, James G. Ryan, Bailey Cavalieri LLC, Columbus OH for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Melanie K. Sharp, Martin S. Lessner, Mary F. Dugan, Robert M. Vrana, Young Conaway Stargett & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69858

    Constitutional challenges to audit under state escheat law overruled where there was no showing that state would undertake estimation of escheated property held by entity and where seizure of property owned by entities with foreign last known addresses did not violate the foreign commerce clause.

  • 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