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  • Chai v. Maginn

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Education | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil R. Lapinski, Phillip A. Giordano, Madeline R. Silverman, Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Thomas A. Uebler, Kathleen A. Murphy, Adam J. Waskie, Sarah P. Kaboly, Terisa A. Shoremount, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Thad J. Bracegirdle, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2024-0393-LWW

    Stockholder/director's claims for breach of stockholders' agreement were barred by res judicata, laches, and acquiescence where director served alongside other directors without objection and could have asserted her present claims in a prior action against the other directors.

  • In re: TransUnion Derivative Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Federal Government
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Closic, John G. Day, Seth T. Ford, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Laurence Paskowitz, The Paskowitz Law Firm P.C., Rego Park, NY; Emily Komlossy, Komlossy Law, P.A., Hollywood, FL; Frederic S. Fox, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, New York, NY; Matthew M. Houston, Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, New York, NY; D. Seamus Kaskela, Adrienne Bell, Kaskela Law LLC, Newtown Square, PA; Alfred G. Yates, Law Office of Alfred G. Yates, Jr., P.C., Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Gallagher, Spencer V. Crawford, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Victoria J. Ryan, Mike Rusie, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-1103-LWW

    Court dismissed derivative complaint for lack of demand futility where board's minor disagreements with regulators over the terms of a consent order did not rise to a willful disregard of the law or failure of oversight to constitute a breach of the duty of loyalty.

  • In re Match Group, Inc. Derivative Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Blake Rohrbacher, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; William M. Lafferty, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2020-0505-MTZ

    Stockholders could not bring fiduciary claims against purported controller of company's parent corporation without presenting evidence of controller's hard control over the parent's voting power or an exercise of actual control over the company.

  • Allstate Ins. Co. v. New Jersey Mfrs. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Jones
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur D. Kuhl, Martin D. Page, Reger, Rizzo & Darnall, LLP, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Nicholas E. Skiles, Brian P. Smith, Swartz, Campbell, LLC, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
    Case Number: 2023-0847 FJJ

    Insurer could not pursue statutory intercompany arbitration for PIP benefits issued under an out-of-state insurance policy covering a vehicle registered in another state.

  • Doe v. Int'l Fin. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Agriculture
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Misty A. Seemans, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE; Marco Simons, Richard Herz, Marissa Vahlsing, Bejamin Hoffman, EarthRights International, Washington, DC; Jonathan Kaufman, Law Office of Jonathan Kaufman, New York, NY; Judith Brown Chomsky, Law Offices of Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Susan Hannigan Cohen, Travis S. Hunter, Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey T. Green, Green Law Chartered, Bethesda, MD; Marisa S. West, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
    Case Number: 17-1494-JFB-SRF

    Court approved class action settlement on behalf of farmers where most of the settlement funds went to fund community programs for class members, who constituted economically disadvantaged farmers in developing countries.

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  • Isaac v. Cable News Network, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Electronics | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Robinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Poliquin, The Poliquin Firm, LLC, Dover, DE; Joseph D. Stanley, Schwartz & Schwartz, P.A., Dover, DE; Brian R. Della Roca, Compass Law Partners, Rockville, MD for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David J. Soldo, Morris James, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Katherine M. Bolger, Hilary Oran, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, New York, NY; Alison Schary, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Washington, DC; David J. Margules, Lauren P. Russell, Ballard Spahr, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kaitlin M. Gurney, Ballard Spahr, LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Bartholomew J. Dalton, Connor C. Dalton, Jessica L. Needles, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Abbe D. Lowell, Sanaya M. Tamboli, Winston & Strawn LLP, Washington, DC; David A. Kolansky, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY; Joseph M. Turk, BFPCC, Inc., Wilmington, DC; David J. Burman, John M. Devaney, Perkins Coie, LLP for defendants.
    Case Number: S22C-10-012 RHR

    News interviews were not defamatory where they did not directly mention or indirectly reference plaintiff and where plaintiff, a limited public figure, failed to show actual malice by the news outlets.

  • Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Newsmax Media, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Electronics | Manufacturing | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barrie, Kate Harmon, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. Erik Connolly, Nicole Wrigley, David D. Pope, William Walsh, Lee B. Muench, Lauran Tortorella, Olivia Sullivan, Meghan Golden, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: C. Barr Flinn, Kevin A. Guerke, Timothy E. Lengkeek, Lauren Dunkle Fortunato, Michael A. Laukaitis II, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Douglas D. Herrmann, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Bennet J. Moskowitz, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, New York, NY; Misha Tseytlin, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Chicago, IL; Howard M. Cooper, Joseph M. Cacace, Josh L. Launer, Maria A. Lombardi, Todd & Weld LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.
    Case Number: N21C-11-028 EMD

    Court granted reargument to clarify that Florida punitive damages law sufficiently defined "express malice" and required both actual and express malice for a jury to award punitive damages.

  • Mehra v. Teller

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Patrick J. Smith, Brian T. Burns, Michael K. Sala, Clark Smith Villazor LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jon E. Abramczyk, D. McKinley Measley, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Kirk C. Andersen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2019-0812-KSJM

    Court found that equal sharing provision in parties' LLC agreement had been triggered entitling plaintiff to equal distributions at the subsidiary level by transferring his economic rights to the subsidiary following the holding company's dissolution.

  • Roth v. Sotera Health Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, G. Mason Thomson, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ryan Q. Keech, K&L Gates LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Carl Alan Roth, Roth Ames LLP, La Habra, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Lauren K. Neal, Courtney Kurz, Taylor A. Christensen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 2022-1192-LWW

    Court ruled that company's former LLP agreement's vesting and forfeiture terms for partnership units could be incorporated into restricted stock agreement following company's corporate conversion and exchange of employee's units for restricted stock.

  • Feldman v. Marks

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Consulting | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Brennan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael Farnan, Rosemary J. Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen Shackelford, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Joe P. Yeager, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: N21C-09-206 DJB

    Plaintiffs adequately proved claim of defamation where defendant's litigation filings that contained untrue statements had the effect of maligning plaintiffs' reputation and thus could be reasonably understood by a third party as defamatory.