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  • Gregory v. State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Griffith v. Stein

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony A. Rickey, Margrave Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Raffi Melkonian, Wright Close & Bargar, LLP, Houston, TX for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Farnan, Michael Farnan, Rosemary Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Arnold Gershon, Michael A. Toomey, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, New York, NY; Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert J. Giuggra, Jr., David M.J. Rein, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY; Kevin M. Gallagher, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69949

    Court reversed the chancery court's decision approving a litigation settlement which included forward-looking statements that bound absent interested parties from bringing claims in the future, in violation of the Due Process Clause.

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  • 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.

  • Diep v. Trimaran Pollo Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-07-12
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph N. Sianni, Andersen Sleater Sianni LLC, Wilmington, DE; Hung G. Ta, JooYun Kim, Natalia D. Williams, HGT LAW, New York, NY; Peter Safirstein, Safirstein Metcalf LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Jamie L. Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam H. Offenhartz, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Tyler H. Amass, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Denver, CO for appellees.
    Case Number: D69883

    Chancery court properly granted corporation's special litigation committee's motion to dismiss derivative claims, where there was not sufficient evidence to raise a material dispute regarding the independence of the SLC or the reasonableness of the findings of the SLC's investigation into the claims.

  • Delmarsh, LLC v. Envt'l Appeals Bd. of the State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2022-05-24
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Abbott, Abbott Law Firm, Hockessin, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Kayli H. Spialter, Delaware Department of Justice, New Castle, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69826

    Environmental Appeals Board properly interpreted statutory definition of "wetlands" as not being restricted solely to lands experiencing daily tidal flow, where the Wetlands Act expressly encompassed land features that did not necessarily have daily tides.

  • Droz v. Hennessy Indus., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-04-19
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Dalton, Bartholomew J. Dalton, Ipek Kurul, Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam L. Balick, Michael Collins Smith, Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian D. Tome, Reilly, Mcdevitt & Henrich, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Susan M. Valinis, Reilly, Mcdevitt & Henrich, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: D69784

    Plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to overcome summary judgment through circumstantial evidence demonstrating that decedent used asbestos-containing products on defendant's arc grinder machine.

  • 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.