• Crawford v. New Castle County Hous. Auth., Section 8

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roberta Crawford, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Colleen K. Norris and Mary A. Jacobson, New Castle County Law Department, New Castle, DE, Barry M. Willoughby and Laure Elizabeth Moak Russell, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D68688

    Termination of Section 8 housing voucher proper where it was not based on a policy or custom leading to a constitutional violation and where recipient had apparent actual notice of the termination hearing.

  • Harmon v. Dep't of Fin., Sussex Co., Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin J. Connors and Artemio C. Aranilla, II, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defend-ants.
    for defendant: N/A

    Case Number: D68689

    A pending state court proceeding encompassed the same issues plaintiff raised in this federal district court proceeding, so the federal court granted a motion to dismiss under the abstention doctrine.

  • Campbell v. Navient Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Education | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Georkeshia Denise Campbell, Lancaster, CA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joelle Eileen Polesky, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Navient Corporation. David C. Weiss, United States Attorney, and Jesse S. Wenger, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE for defendant United States Department of Education.

    Case Number: D68679

    Constitutional and civil rights claims against the Department of Education and a student loan servicer failed where there was no basis to waive the department's sovereign immunity and the loan servicer was not a state actor and was not alleged to have acted in a discriminatory matter.

  • TC Tech. LLC v. Sprint Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly E. Farnan and Katharine L. Mowery, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lawrence J. Gotts, Saswat Mis-ra, Kevin L. Mallen and Gabriel S. Gross, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Menlo Park, CA; Stephanie N. Solomon, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; David S. Benyacar and Daniel L. Reisner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Shanti M. Katona and Christina M. Belitz, Polsinelli PC, Wilmington, DE; Robert Reckers, David Morehan, Christine A. Guas-tello, Jordan T. Bergsten, Colman D. McCarthy and Thomas M. Patton, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Houston, TX and Kansas City, MO for defendants.

    Case Number: D68620

    The court granted several aspects of the parties' various motions to limit expert testimony where the experts did not tie their opinions to the facts of the case.

  • Anderson-Strange v. Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David B. Anthony, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sean A. Meluney, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
    for defendant: Lindsay M. Neinast and Alison N. Davis, Littler Mendelson P.C., Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: D68614

    Gender discrimination, retaliation, and termination claims dismissed on summary judgment where plaintiff failed to demonstrate that employer's proffered reasons were pretextual.

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  • Greene v. Parker

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jermaine Greene, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: Joseph Clement Handlon, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68616

    Dismissal of inmate's civil rights complaint warranted for failure to prosecute where plaintiff had taken no action in the case for over a year, had failed to advise the court of his transfers, failed to respond to the motion to dismiss, and appeared to lack a meritorious claim.

  • Fahmy v. Phelps

    Publication Date: 2019-06-19
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul A. Fahmy, Smyrna, DE, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: N/A

    Case Number: D68599

    Plaintiff inmate's §1983 claims dismissed where he was granted a disciplinary hearing on his charges and where plaintiff received medical treatment for his injuries, failing to identify any officials who were responsible for the alleged delay in treatment.

  • Hardwick v. Senato

    Publication Date: 2019-06-05
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Hayley J. Reese and Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
    for defendant: Ryan P. Connell, Delaware Dep't of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants

    Case Number: D68586

    Factual issues precluded summary judgment on an inmate's claims regarding a religious diet and congregational worship, but the inmate failed to exhaust his administrative remedies on his claim involving religious objects.

  • Fo2GO LLC v. KeepItSafe, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stamatios Stamoulis, Stamoulis & Weinblatt LLC, Wilmington, DE; David R. Bennett, Direction IP Law, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Melanie K. Sharp, James L. Higgins, and Michelle M. Ovanesian, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Guy Ruttenberg and Michael Eshaghian, Ruttenberg IP Law, P.C., Los Angeles, CA, for defendant.

    Case Number: D68542

    Dismissal of direct, contributory, and induced infringement claims denied to the extent plaintiff alleged defendant provided its employees with all the components of the infringing system and that it provided defendant's parent with notice of infringement in plaintiff's original complaint against the parent.

  • TQ Delta, LLC v. 2Wire, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan and Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter J. McAndrews, Thomas J. Wimbiscus, James P. Murphy, Paul W. McAndrews, Anna M. Targowska and Rajendra Chiplunkar, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd., Chicago, IL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brett Schuman, Rachel M. Walsh and Monte M.F. Cooper, Goodwin Procter LLP, San Francisco for defendant.

    Case Number: D68548

    In this patent infringement action, the court granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment of no invalidity as to patent eli-gibility and indefiniteness, but it denied the remainder of the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment.