• Franklin v. Navient Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-09-18
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky R. Franklin, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joelle Eileen Polesky of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP for defendants.

    Case Number: D68705

    The court granted summary judgment in favor of defendants regarding this student loan collection matter, except for a limited issue about plaintiff's revocation of consent to receive automated calls on his cellular phone.

  • Drummond v. Amazon.com.dedc, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-09-11
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tia Drummond, Newark, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jody Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorney for defendant.

    Case Number: D68694

    Plaintiff's motion for leave to amend denied where court had dismissed plaintiff's complaint and terminated the case and where plaintiff had not first filed a motion to open the judgment.

  • Alarm.com, Inc. v. SecureNet Tech., LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Dorsney, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE, Ian R. Liston, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE, James C. Yoon, Ryan R. Smith, Christopher D. Mays, and Mary A. Procaccio-Flowers, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Palo Alto, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld and Stephen J. Kraftschik, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Erik B. Milch, Frank Pietrantonio, and Dustin Knight, Cooley LLP, Reston, VA, Rose Whelan, Lisa Fuller Schweir, and Naina Soni, Cooley LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: D68686

    Court did not erroneously construe software limitation as a means-plus-function term where the word "means" was absent from the claim and where the claim as a whole failed to connote sufficient structure to a POSA.

  • Crawford v. New Castle County Hous. Auth., Section 8

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roberta Crawford, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Colleen K. Norris and Mary A. Jacobson, New Castle County Law Department, New Castle, DE, Barry M. Willoughby and Laure Elizabeth Moak Russell, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D68688

    Termination of Section 8 housing voucher proper where it was not based on a policy or custom leading to a constitutional violation and where recipient had apparent actual notice of the termination hearing.

  • Harmon v. Dep't of Fin., Sussex Co., Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-09-04
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin J. Connors and Artemio C. Aranilla, II, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defend-ants.
    for defendant: N/A

    Case Number: D68689

    A pending state court proceeding encompassed the same issues plaintiff raised in this federal district court proceeding, so the federal court granted a motion to dismiss under the abstention doctrine.

  • Campbell v. Navient Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Education | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Georkeshia Denise Campbell, Lancaster, CA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joelle Eileen Polesky, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Navient Corporation. David C. Weiss, United States Attorney, and Jesse S. Wenger, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE for defendant United States Department of Education.

    Case Number: D68679

    Constitutional and civil rights claims against the Department of Education and a student loan servicer failed where there was no basis to waive the department's sovereign immunity and the loan servicer was not a state actor and was not alleged to have acted in a discriminatory matter.

  • TC Tech. LLC v. Sprint Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Patent Litigation
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly E. Farnan and Katharine L. Mowery, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lawrence J. Gotts, Saswat Mis-ra, Kevin L. Mallen and Gabriel S. Gross, Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Menlo Park, CA; Stephanie N. Solomon, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; David S. Benyacar and Daniel L. Reisner, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Shanti M. Katona and Christina M. Belitz, Polsinelli PC, Wilmington, DE; Robert Reckers, David Morehan, Christine A. Guas-tello, Jordan T. Bergsten, Colman D. McCarthy and Thomas M. Patton, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Houston, TX and Kansas City, MO for defendants.

    Case Number: D68620

    The court granted several aspects of the parties' various motions to limit expert testimony where the experts did not tie their opinions to the facts of the case.

  • Anderson-Strange v. Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David B. Anthony, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sean A. Meluney, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
    for defendant: Lindsay M. Neinast and Alison N. Davis, Littler Mendelson P.C., Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: D68614

    Gender discrimination, retaliation, and termination claims dismissed on summary judgment where plaintiff failed to demonstrate that employer's proffered reasons were pretextual.

  • Greene v. Parker

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jermaine Greene, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: Joseph Clement Handlon, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D68616

    Dismissal of inmate's civil rights complaint warranted for failure to prosecute where plaintiff had taken no action in the case for over a year, had failed to advise the court of his transfers, failed to respond to the motion to dismiss, and appeared to lack a meritorious claim.

  • Fahmy v. Phelps

    Publication Date: 2019-06-19
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul A. Fahmy, Smyrna, DE, pro se plaintiff
    for defendant: N/A

    Case Number: D68599

    Plaintiff inmate's §1983 claims dismissed where he was granted a disciplinary hearing on his charges and where plaintiff received medical treatment for his injuries, failing to identify any officials who were responsible for the alleged delay in treatment.