• Albence v. Mennella

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Jennings, Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Alexander S. Mackler, Patricia A. Davis, Kenneth Wan, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Ginger D. Anders, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC for appellants.
    for defendant: M. Jane Brady, Brady Legal Group LLC, Lewes, DE; Noel H. Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Alexandria, VA for appellees.

    Case Number: 120, 2024

    Plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge voting procedures where one was not a candidate in the upcoming election cycle and the other's role as inspector of elections did not implicate the challenged procedures.

  • Riad v. Brandywine Valley SPCA, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-02
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Fletcher, Jr., Dianna E. Stuart, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey, P.C., Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 249, 2023

    Dog bite statute contained no language indicating the legislature's intent to exclude animal welfare organizations from the definition of an "owner."

  • NGL Energy Partners LP v. LCT Capital, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-06-11
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting | Energy
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven T. Margolin, Lisa M. Zwally, Samuel L. Moultrie, Bryan T. Reed, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Hal S. Shaftel, Daniel Friedman, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin D. Schuman, DLA Piper LLP, Baltimore, MD for appellee.

    Case Number: N15C-08-109

    Trial court erred in categorically excluding prejudgment interest from the post-judgment interest calculation where prejudgment interest was a component of the judgment.

  • BitGo Holdings, Inc. v. Galaxy Digital Holdings, Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-03
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, Michael A. Barlow, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; R. Brian Timmons, David M. Grable, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; David Cooper, Deborah K. Brown, Nathan Goralnik, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Bradley R. Aronstam, S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew Ditchfield, Brian M. Burnovski, Pascale Bibi, Kyra Macy Kaufman, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY; Neal Kumar Katyal, Nathaniel A.G. Zelinsky, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., Dennis H. Tracey, III, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 2022-0808

    Court remanded for reconsideration of interpretation of contractual requirement using extrinsic evidence where both parties proffered reasonable interpretations of the provision.

  • McDougal v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole M. Walker, Office of Defense Services, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew R. Fletcher, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 170, 2023

    Police lacked articulable facts to suspect individual on sidewalk of loitering and thus unlawfully detained the individual for a pat down search.

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  • Zurich Am. Ins. Co. v. Sygenta Crop Prot., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Balaguer, Lindsey E. Imbrogno, Balaguer Milewski & Imbrogno, Wilmington, DE; Michael M. Marick, Timothy H. Wright, Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: Stephen E. Jenkins, Catherine A. Gaul, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Dorthea W. Regal, Joshua L. Blosveren, Miriam J. Manber, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for appellee.

    Case Number: 135, 2023

    Communications threating litigation at some indefinite time in the future without identifying claimants or requesting monetary relief were insufficient to constitute a "claim for damages" that would trigger or bar liability insurance coverage.

  • Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. v. Ainslie

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Barr Flinn, Paul J. Loughman, Alberto E. Chávez, Skyler A. C. Speed, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David A. Paul, Virginia J. Cardenas, Sid Nadkarni, Cantor Fitzgerald, New York, NY; Benjamin R. Nagin, Eric G. Hoffman, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Tacy F. Flint, Frank J. Favia, Jr., Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL for appellant.
    for defendant: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch & Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kyle W. Roche, Kyle Roche P.A., New York, NY; Velvel Freedman, Alex Potter, Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 162, 2023

    A "forfeiture-for-competition" provision in a partnership agreement did not qualify as a restraint on trade, and thus partners who had negotiated and benefitted from such a term would be held to the terms of their agreement due to the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act's express favor for the enforceability of contracts.

  • Lebanon County Employees' Ret. Fund v. Collis

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Closic, Eric J. Juray, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Gregory V. Varallo, Andrew Blumberg, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Stephen C. Norman, Jennifer C. Wasson, Tyler J. Leavengood, Christopher D. Renaud, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Doluisio, Brittany Zoll, Christopher J. Merken, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Matthew L. Larrabee, Hayoung Park, Julia Markham-Cameron, Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Michael D. Blanchard, Amelia Pennington, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA for appellees.

    Case Number: 22, 2023

    Chancery court erred in adopting West Virginia court's factual findings through judicial notice where such facts were disputed by the parties to the present action.

  • Terrell v. Kiromic Biopharma, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Consulting | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott James Leonhardt, Jason A. Gibson, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Alexander Klein, Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & Loturco, LLP, Garden City, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin, Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Friedman, Joshua I. Schlenger, Katherine Anne Boy Skipsey, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, New York, NY for appellee.

    Case Number: 299, 2022

    Chancery court erred in accepting corporate board committee's interpretation of stock option agreement provision without further review or offering the parties the opportunity to provide supplemental briefing or oral argument. Reversed and remanded.

  • Wilmington Trust Nat'l Ass'n v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin G. Abrams, John M. Seaman, Samuel D. Cordle, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Harry S. Davis, Robert E. Griffin, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. Kelleher, Brian D. Burack, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: N18C-07-289

    Courts had to conduct fault-based analysis evaluating the parties' knowledge or inquiry notice of the illegality of life insurance policies ultimately deemed to be stranger originated life insurance policies when determining whether to order disgorgement of paid premiums or allow the insurer to retain the premiums.