• Rome Enter., Inc. v. ReBath, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-10-21
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction | Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Renck, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Wayne A. Mack, J. Manly Parks, William Shotzbarger, Raymond A. Vanderhyden, Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jason C. Jowers, Stephen B. Brauerman, Elizabeth A. Powers, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey H. Wolf, Lauren Elliott Stine, Kristen M. Arredondo, Quarles & Brady LLP, Phoenix, AZ for defendant.

    Case Number: D69165

    The court denied a party's motion to vacate an arbitrator's award where that party had consented to the arbitrator's authority to issue decisions on certain matters.

  • In re SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-23
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Van Gorder, Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nadeem Faruqi, James M. Wilson, Jr., Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Alan R. Silverstein, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; S. Mark Hurd, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; David D. Sterling, Paul R. Elliott, Matthew B. Allen, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, TX; Michelle A. Reed, M. Scott Barnard, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: D69129

    The court granted defendants' motion to dismiss all claims asserted by class action plaintiffs in connection with this merger transaction.

  • Clark v. Pierce

    Publication Date: 2020-09-09
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luis Clark, Frackville, PA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: George Thomas Lees, Ill, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69110

    Exhaustion of administrative remedies was an affirmative defense that a defendant was required to prove, and a defendant could not simply rely on plaintiff's failure to plead exhaustion in order to prove that the plaintiff had failed to exhaust his or her administrative remedies.

  • XAPT Corp. v. Deere & Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-02
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Manufacturing | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Flynn, Aubrey J. Morin, Andrew M. Moshos, R. Judson Scaggs, Jr. and Zi-Xiang Shen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kara E.F. Cenar, S. Patrick McKey, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., Chicago, IL; Ronnie L. White, II and Mary Ann L. Wymore, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., St. Louis, MO; Lauren Jaffe and Mariangela Seale, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Chicago, IL; James L. Higgins, Steven W. Lee and Melanie K. Sharp, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69109

    Plaintiff's breach of contract action was not the functional equivalent of a copyright infringement claim, so the court granted a motion remanding this matter back to state court.

  • Nexon Am. Inc. v. Uniloc 2017 LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Rovner and Jonathan Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Allen Wang, David Hayes, Earl Mah, Charlene Morrow, Min Wu and Venessa Park-Thompson, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA and New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; James Etheridge, Etheridge Law Group, Southlake, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: D69034

    The court had subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiff's declaratory judgment claims involving certain patents, but not for other patents that had been invalidated by another federal court.

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  • f'real Foods, LLC v. Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodger D. Smith II, Michael J. Flynn and Taylor Haga, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Guy W. Chambers and Peter Colosi, Sideman & Bancroft LLP, San Francisco for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Francis DiGiovanni, Thatcher A. Rahmeier, William S. Foster, Jr., Kenneth M. Vorrasi and Brianna L. Silverstein, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: D69037

    Plaintiffs failed to establish rental lost profits.

  • In re: Semcrude, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Hazeltine, Morris, Sullivan, Hazeltine Allison LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Don A. Beskrone and Stacy L. Newman, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69032

    Seller's warranty of good title free of liens and encumbrances to an initial purchaser served to waive seller's right to assert a lien against a subsequent purchaser from the initial purchaser.

  • Smith v. Brackett

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kendall Maurice Smith, Huntingdon, PA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dana Spring Monzo and Kelly Elizabeth Rowe, White & Williams, Wilmington, DE for defendants Brackett, Collins-Young and Davis-Wipf. Ryan Patrick Connell, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant Burley.

    Case Number: D69036

    Defendants did not demonstrate that an inmate failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, but the court held that the complaint did not state a claim for violation of the inmate's constitutional rights regarding medical treatment.

  • Verition Partners Master Fund, Ltd. v. Cornell

    Publication Date: 2020-06-17
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Consulting | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins, Smith Katzenstein Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Ryan P. Newell and Shaun Michael Kelly, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gary W. Lipkin and Alexandra D. Rogin, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC, Wilmington, DE; Peter M. Spingola, Robert J. Shapiro and John M. Own, Chapman Spingola, LLP, Chicago, IL; Norman T. Finkel, Richard M. Goldwasser, William R. Klein and Matthew P. Tyrrell, Schoenberg, Finkel, Newman & Rosenberg, LLC , Chicago, IL for defendant.

    Case Number: D69021

    The economic loss rule barred plaintiffs' negligence claim, and the court dismissed plaintiffs' claim for pro-fessional negligence against their valuation expert.

  • United States v. Sanchez

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jesse S. Wenger, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE for the government.
    for defendant: Mark S. Greenberg, Blue Bell, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: D68996

    The court denied defendant's motion to suppress, because police had found a handgun in defendant's ve-hicle pursuant to a valid traffic stop.