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Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Domenico Minerva, Joseph Cotilletta, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; David M. Cooper, Silpa Maruri, George T. Phillips, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; William R. Sears, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Chad Johnson, Noam Mandel, Desiree Cummings, Robert Gerson, Jonathan Zweig, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy S. Friedman, David F.E. Tejtel, Christopher M. Windover, Lindsay La Marca, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for appellee.
Case Number: 349, 2023
Court upheld counsel fee of 26 percent of $1 billion settlement where Delaware disfavored per se rules governing reasonableness of fee awards and chancery court adequately explained the reasonable value of the award.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Benjamin A. Smyth, Maliheh Zare, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Elisabeth S. Bradley, Y. Carson Zhou, Alan C. Cardenas-Moreno, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-1176-KSJM
Court stayed breach of restrictive covenant action pending further proceedings in separate action that likely would have overlapping factual and legal issues.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Employment Litigation
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, E. Wade Houston, Joseph A. Sparco, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas G. Hill, Rebecca M. Borkovich, McGuireWoods LLP, Atlanta, GA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: David E. Ross, Eric D. Selden, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Martin L. Roth, P.C., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Haley S. Stern, Amanda Lamothe-Cadet, Maylynn Chen, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0513-PAF
Former vice presidents were entitled to advancement rights from company in company's IP misappropriation action where certificate of incorporation and bylaws granted advancement to officers, defined as including vice presidents, for claims arising from their service to the company or at the company's request.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Adams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa C. McLaughlin, Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John N. Scholnick, Ross, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Lori Sambol Brody, Ellis George LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Chad S. C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew B. Barr, Zachary Miller, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Indianapolis, IN for defendants.
Case Number: N17C-11-242 MAA CCLD
Failure to issue litigation hold following filing of counterclaim constituted reckless behavior warranting adverse inference after material, relevant information was deleted per automatic deletion protocols.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: David L. Konick, Washington, VA for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-1036-LWW
Court's readjustment of LLC ownership percentages did not affect the deadlock analysis where the LLC agreement required a two-thirds interest vote or unanimous consent.
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Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kemba S. Lydia-Moore, DAG, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald J. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N24C-02-153 EMD
Delaware Fair Housing Act merely required Delaware Department of Justice to "pursue" a civil enforcement action after referral, which did not require the filing of a lawsuit.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Consulting | Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lawrence P. Eagel, Melissa Fortunato, Marion C. Passmore, Brandon Walker, Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel J. Kramer, Andrew J. Ehrlich, Robert N. Kravitz, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Michael A. Pittenger, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Camilia R. Katkocin, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Stefan Atkinson, Kevin M. Neylan, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-1191-LWW
Court denied relief from dismissed action where "newly discovered evidence" was available to plaintiff long before it filed its initial derivative complaint.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Public Records
Industry: Education | Non-Profit | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Wharton
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William E. Green, Jr., Theodore A. Kittila, Michael Bekesha, Halloran Farkas + Kittila, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: William E. Manning, James D. Taylor, Marisa R. De Feo, Juliana Clifton, Saul Ewing LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: N20A-07-001 FWW
Where DOJ special counsel report did not contradict the University of Delaware's assertions in its affidavit in support of its invocation of its exemption under the Delaware Freedom of Information Act, the court found no basis to reopen petitioners' complaint where university averred that it had not used public funds to acquire former legislator's working papers.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Insurance
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Roth
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Case Number: 22-2967
District court erred in calculating length of injunction on competitive activity where parties' agreement allowed extension of non-compete provision equal to duration of breach but district court found defendants' first breach inconsequential.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Copyrights
Industry: E-Commerce | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Bibas
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Michael J. Flynn, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dale M. Cendali, Jeremy King, Eric A. Loverro, Joshua L. Simmons, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; Miranda Means, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Boston, MA; Yungmoon Chang, Allyn Belusko, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: David Ellis Moore, Bindu Ann George Palapura, Andrew L. Brown, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Warrington Parker, Joachim B. Steinberg, Jacob Canter, Christopher J. Banks, Anna Z. Saber, Crowell & Moring LLP, San Francisco, CA; Mark A. Klapow, Crinesha B. Berry, Lisa Kimmel, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C.; Emily T. Kuwahara, Jordan Ludwig, Crowell & Moring LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Ryan Henry Seewald, Crowell & Moring LLP, Denver, CO for defendant.
Case Number: 1:20-cv-613-SB
Expert opinion on liability was not unreliable where it detailed how data for comparison was selected, as limited qualitative analysis did not automatically render the opinion unreliable.
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