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  • Teamster Members Ret. Plan v. Dearth

    Publication Date: 2022-06-21
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, David T. Wissbroecker, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Nashville, TN for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stephen C. Norman, Tyler J. Leavengood, Christopher D. Renaud, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Marc J. Sonnenfeld, Michael L. Kichline, Matthew D. Klayman, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Robert H. O’Leary, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69854

    Alleged omissions of information regarding company value were insufficient to render stockholder vote uninformed, thereby validating a single-bidder transaction.

  • Mock v. Div. of State Police

    Publication Date: 2022-06-14
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephani J. Ballard, Law Offices of Stephani J. Ballard, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph C. Handlon, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69847

    Chancery court lacked jurisdiction to hear police officer's challenge to the termination of his employment for disciplinary violations, where police officers lacked a statutory right to judicial review of such agency action, and any equitable relief sought by the officer could be obtained at law through a writ of mandamus.

  • Blue v. Fireman

    Publication Date: 2022-03-15
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus E. Montejo, John G. Day, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Audra J. Soloway, Jaren Janghorbani, Maia Usui, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D69743

    The court found that plaintiffs' breach of fiduciary duty claim was a direct claim and not a derivative claim.

  • Tygon Peak Capital Mgt., LLC v. Mobile Inv. Investco Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-01-18
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marc S. Casarino, Karine Sarkisian, Kelly Rowe, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jarrod D. Shaw and Keisha O. Coleman, McGuire Woods LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Gallagher, Angela Lam, Christian C.F. Roberts, Richards, Layton, & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69681

    The court held that plaintiff venture capital firm failed to state claims against its investors for tort and quasi-contract claims.

  • Patel v. Duncan

    Publication Date: 2021-10-13
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. Jenkins, F. Troup Mickler IV, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eduard Korsinsky, Gregory M. Nespole, Daniel Tepper, Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin R. Shannon, Matthew F. Davis, Justin T. Hymes, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; David M. Zensky, Brian Carney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY; Scott Barnard, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Dallas, TX; David E. Ross, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew B. Clubok, J. Christian Word, Stephen P. Barry, Latham & Watkins, LLP, Washington, DC; Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Bruce Birenboim, Susanna M. Buergel, Christopher L. Filburn, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, New York, NY; William B. Chandler, III, Andrew D. Cordo, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wilmington, DE; Mark A. Kirsch, Randy M. Mastro, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D69573

    The court dismissed plaintiff's derivative claims because he failed to adequately plead the existence of a control group, and plaintiff also failed to demonstrate demand futility.

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  • Intel Corp. v. Fortress Inv. Group, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-10-13
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Kenneth J. Nachbar, Ryan D. Stottmann, Elizabeth A. Mullin, Miranda N. Gilbert, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Kelly E. Farnan, Blake Rohrbacher, Valerie A. Caras, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ben Hattenbach, Iian D. Jablon, Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69572

    The court dismissed this action for declaratory relief because plaintiff had an adequate remedy at law in other pending patent lawsuits.

  • DeMarco v. Christiana Care Health Servs., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-13
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ralph C. Lorigo, Law Office of Ralph C. Lorigo, West Seneca, NY for plaintiff;
    for defendant: John D. Balaguer, Stephen J. Milewski, Karine Sarkisian, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69569

    Court declined to order injunctive relief directing health care provider to administer treatment that did not fall within the provider's accepted standard of care for treatment of a medical condition.

  • In re The Boeing Co. Derivative Litig.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-22
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Richard M. Heimann, Katherine Lubin Benson, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Steven E. Fineman, Nicholas Diamond, Sean Petterson, Rhea Ghosh, Kartik S. Madiraju, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Kevin M. Gallagher, Ryan D. Konstanzer, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joshua Z. Rabinovitz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.
    Case Number: D69544

    Demand futility sufficiently pled by alleging that directors could face substantial likelihood of liability for failure to establish reporting systems and for ignoring warning signs regarding product safety.

  • Kihm v. Mott

    Publication Date: 2021-09-15
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffery M. Gorris, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; R. Bruce McNew, Cooch & Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, David Wissbroecker, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Nashville, TN; Peretz Bronstein, Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman, LLC, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, April M. Kirby, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter L. Welsh, Elena Weissman Davis, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA; Timothy R. Farrell, Ropes & Gray LLP, Chicago, IL; Christian Reigstad, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, NY; Paul D. Brown, Joseph B. Cicero, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roger A. Lane, Courtney Worcester, Holland & Knight LLP, Boston, MA; Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Bruce Birenboim, Susanna M. Buergel, Christopher L. Filburn, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D69534

    Post-closing fiduciary claims against directors failed where none of the alleged omissions from the board's disclosure statement to stockholders rendered the statement deficient, such that the approval of the transaction by a majority of informed, uncoerced stockholders relieved the directors from any liability for fiduciary claims arising from the sale of the company.

  • Optimis Corp v. Atkins

    Publication Date: 2021-07-28
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, James G. McMillan, III, William E. Green, Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stephen B. Brauerman, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69483

    A company adequately alleged claims for unjust enrichment and breach of fiduciary duty against former di-rectors who obtained a derivative award in favor of the company, but then failed to turn over the funds.