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December 20, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Latham, Finnegan Win $115M Muscular Dystrophy Drug Patent Verdict for Counterclaimant

The trial took place over five days before U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Hall.
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December 19, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Supreme Court Adopts Broad Interpretation of Case Law on Anticompetition Provisions

Chief Justice Collins J. Seitz Jr. wrote that the court used the employee choice doctrine in Cantor Fitzgerald after weighing conflicting policy concerns, distinguishing forfeiture for competition provisions from restrictive covenants, which can be enforced through injunctive relief.
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December 18, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

'We've Got a Good Thing Here in Delaware': Glasscock Reflects on Rewards of Equity Work, Clerks and the Delaware Way

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock, who has not announced any post-retirement plans, discussed how the court's workload has changed, the most pivotal chancery cases resolved during his tenure and his experience working with law clerks and members of the Delaware bar.
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December 18, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Supreme Court Upholds Court of Chancery’s Refusal to Blue Pencil an Unreasonable Covenant Not to Compete

The plaintiff contended that the court should “blue pencil” a contractual noncompete to give the plaintiff the benefit of his bargain, even if the contract was overly broad. The defendant contended that when a party did not negotiate in any way the terms of the covenant not to compete and received minimal consideration in exchange, and the covenants themselves were overly broad, the Court of Chancery has discretion to decline to enforce the covenants entirely.
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December 16, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Delaware Senate Approves Bonnie David for Vice Chancellor

Prior to joining the court as magistrate, she litigated corporate matters before the Chancery court as an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
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December 16, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

3rd Circuit Nominee Mangi Sees 'No Pathway to Confirmation,' Derides 'Organized Smear Campaign'

Adeel Mangi said in a letter to the White House that the system for approving federal court judges is "fundamentally broken" and has turned into "a channel for the raising of money based on performative McCarthyism before video cameras."
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December 11, 2024 | National Law Journal

High Court Drops Case Over Nvidia's Effort to Ditch Fraud Suit

The justices said the review was "improvidently granted" in a short order issued Wednesday. Some lawyers say the high court may be a missed chance for the justices to articulate clear pleading standards under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.
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December 11, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

Attorneys, Professors Share Support for Chancellor Following Musk's Online Attacks

"We believe that the expert, hard-working, and outstanding members of the Court of Chancery as well as other members of the Delaware judiciary deserve vocal support from the bar when they are the subjects of unfair attack," lawyers said in the letter Tuesday night.
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December 11, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

'Get Out From Behind Your Desk': Cohen Seglias' New Wilmington Managing Partner On Leadership

"Get out from behind your desk. Build your book of business and make relationships you can bank on. As you build yourself, you will build your team."
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December 11, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

In Del. Win, Cantor Fitzgerald Fends Off Former Partners’ Antitrust Claims Over Post-Employment Pay

After Cantor Fitzgerald got an earlier ruling from the Delaware Supreme Court finding the forfeiture-for-competition provisions of its partnership agreements valid under state law, Benjamin Nagin and Tacy Flint of Sidley Austin and David Paul, the co-head of litigation at the financial services firm, won a motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims brought on behalf of former partners.
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