Don’t forget you can visit MyAlerts to manage your alerts at any time.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Primos
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terri Michelle Reylek, Dover, DE, petitioner pro se.
for defendant: Nicholas D. Picollelli, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
Case Number: K22M-07-010 NEP
Registered voter lacked a private cause of action to seek declaratory judgment to challenge certification of electronic voting machines where statutes were tailored to preserving a free and fair election system to and regulate the acquisition of machines.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, Mathew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N20C-04-126 EMD CCLD
Life insurance was void ab initio where parties without an insurable interest in the life of the decedent used Delaware statutory trusts to conceal the illegal nature of the policy and facilitate payment of policy premiums.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Food and Beverage
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Noreika
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Hulton, Lincoln University, PA, plaintiff pro se.
for defendant: Lauren Elizabeth Moak Russell, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 22-1584 (MN)
Employer was entitled to summary judgment where employee failed to rebut employer's legitimate, performance-based reasons for termination to show that those reasons were a pretext for disability discrimination.
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.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Williams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance M. Geren, Ashley E. Macaysa, Paul D. Starr, O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue, New Castle, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Donald D. Gamburg, Immon Shafiei, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
Case Number: 21-1563-GBW
Court upheld union grievance arbitration award where there was sufficient record evidence to support finding that employer's discovery of employee's on-the-job alcohol intoxication after terminating the employee for other reasons constituted after-acquired evidence.
Law Journal Press | Digital Book
Authors: Mary Anthony Merchant
View this BookView more book results for the query "*"
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Energy
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Chad M. Shandler, Steven J. Fineman, Kelly E. Farnan, Kevin M. Gallagher, Christine D. Haynes, Alexander M. Krischik, Sara M. Metzler, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joshua Berman, Jackson Herndon, Paul C. Gross, Ben Nicholson, Michael H. Rover, Paul Hastings LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Timothy R. Dudderar, Aaron R. Sims, Abraham C. Schneider, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Maureen M. Stewart, Foley & Lardner LLP, Tampa, FL; Jordan C. Bledsoe, Tyler Dever, Bryce W. Talbot Foley & Lardner LLP, Salt Lake City, UT; Paul J. Lockwood, Jenness E. Parker, Jessica R. Kunz, Matthew R. Conrad, Eric M. Holleran, Mallory V. Phillips, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Karen Hoffman Lent, Evan R. Kreiner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0988-JTL
Court granted certification of denial of preliminary injunction for interlocutory appeal where such an appeal would facilitate prompt and final resolution of controlling legal issues in the case.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Kelly E. Rowe, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, William C. Purdue, Samuel I. Ferenc, Matthew L. Farley, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; Bruce E. Jameson, John G. Day, Prickett, Jones, & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Tammy Yuen, Juan Luis Garcia, Skarzynski Marick & Black, LLP, New York, NY; Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden, Hangley Aronchik Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA; Michael R. Goodstein, Bailey Cavalieri, Columbus, OH; Thomas J. Judge, Jason C. Reichlyn, Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Washington, D.C. for appellants.
for defendant: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robin L. Cohen, Keith McKenna, Meredith Elkins, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP, New York, NY for appellees.
Case Number: 478, 2022
Superior court erred in finding fraudulent transfer claims filed by a bankruptcy litigation trust to be derivative and falling under the definition of a "securities" claim in a corporate insurance policy where such claims only benefitted creditors rather than the company and thus were direct in nature.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler, Adam J. Waskie, Sarah P. Kaboly, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Rudolf Koch, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Ryan D. Stottman, Thomas P. Will, Alec Hoeschel, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael B. Carlinsky, Rollo C. Baker, Jonathan E. Feder, Alison Y. Lo, Cohl K. Love, Stephanie Keleman, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0970-JTL
Court declined to dismiss breach of contract claim where the statute of frauds did not conclusively apply and where there were factual disputes over whether the work under the alleged contract fell within the scope of plaintiff's employment.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Automotive
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Gallagher, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Anthony N. Delcollo, Michael K. DeSantis, Apla V. Batia, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: N23C-08-316 EMD
Court declined to dismiss disability discrimination claim where diabetes might qualify as a disability as defined by the ADA and employer was on notice of worker's need for accommodations for his diabetes.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Nygaard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abigail E. Horn, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
for defendant: Anthony J. Carissimi, Timothy M. Stengel, Robert A. Zauzmer, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 20-3298
Although officers displayed authority by blocking defendant and commanding him to stop, no seizure occurred where defendant's momentary pause followed by running from the officers meant he never complied with the officers' authority, and his flight gave the officers reasonable suspicion to detain him. Conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated and remanded for resentencing.
Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.
1 minute read