• PacNet Capital v. Skye Mineral Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-12-09
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Mining and Resources
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69218

    The bankruptcy court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing a petition for involuntary bankruptcy, because the party who filed the petition acted in bad faith. Affirmed.

  • Manhattan Telecomm. Corp. v. Granite Telecomm. LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-12-02
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dana B. Parker, Charles F. Rysavy, K&L Gates LLP, Newark, NJ for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Rudolph J. Scaggs, Jr, Zi-Xiang Shen, A. Gage Whirley, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; T. Christopher Donnelly, Joshua N. Ruby, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.

    Case Number: D69210

    Although the complaint limited compensatory damages to an amount below the jurisdictional threshold, plaintiff sought injunctive and other potential relief which far exceeded that amount, so the federal district court declined to remand the case to state court.

  • Rome Enter., Inc. v. ReBath, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-10-21
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction | Consumer Products
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Renck, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Wayne A. Mack, J. Manly Parks, William Shotzbarger, Raymond A. Vanderhyden, Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jason C. Jowers, Stephen B. Brauerman, Elizabeth A. Powers, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey H. Wolf, Lauren Elliott Stine, Kristen M. Arredondo, Quarles & Brady LLP, Phoenix, AZ for defendant.

    Case Number: D69165

    The court denied a party's motion to vacate an arbitrator's award where that party had consented to the arbitrator's authority to issue decisions on certain matters.

  • In re SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-23
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Van Gorder, Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nadeem Faruqi, James M. Wilson, Jr., Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Alan R. Silverstein, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; S. Mark Hurd, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; David D. Sterling, Paul R. Elliott, Matthew B. Allen, Baker Botts LLP, Houston, TX; Michelle A. Reed, M. Scott Barnard, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: D69129

    The court granted defendants' motion to dismiss all claims asserted by class action plaintiffs in connection with this merger transaction.

  • Clark v. Pierce

    Publication Date: 2020-09-09
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luis Clark, Frackville, PA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: George Thomas Lees, Ill, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69110

    Exhaustion of administrative remedies was an affirmative defense that a defendant was required to prove, and a defendant could not simply rely on plaintiff's failure to plead exhaustion in order to prove that the plaintiff had failed to exhaust his or her administrative remedies.

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  • XAPT Corp. v. Deere & Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-02
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Manufacturing | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Flynn, Aubrey J. Morin, Andrew M. Moshos, R. Judson Scaggs, Jr. and Zi-Xiang Shen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kara E.F. Cenar, S. Patrick McKey, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., Chicago, IL; Ronnie L. White, II and Mary Ann L. Wymore, Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., St. Louis, MO; Lauren Jaffe and Mariangela Seale, Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP, Chicago, IL; James L. Higgins, Steven W. Lee and Melanie K. Sharp, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69109

    Plaintiff's breach of contract action was not the functional equivalent of a copyright infringement claim, so the court granted a motion remanding this matter back to state court.

  • Nexon Am. Inc. v. Uniloc 2017 LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Rovner and Jonathan Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Allen Wang, David Hayes, Earl Mah, Charlene Morrow, Min Wu and Venessa Park-Thompson, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA, Mountain View, CA and New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; James Etheridge, Etheridge Law Group, Southlake, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: D69034

    The court had subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiff's declaratory judgment claims involving certain patents, but not for other patents that had been invalidated by another federal court.

  • f'real Foods, LLC v. Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodger D. Smith II, Michael J. Flynn and Taylor Haga, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Guy W. Chambers and Peter Colosi, Sideman & Bancroft LLP, San Francisco for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Francis DiGiovanni, Thatcher A. Rahmeier, William S. Foster, Jr., Kenneth M. Vorrasi and Brianna L. Silverstein, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: D69037

    Plaintiffs failed to establish rental lost profits.

  • In re: Semcrude, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Hazeltine, Morris, Sullivan, Hazeltine Allison LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Don A. Beskrone and Stacy L. Newman, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69032

    Seller's warranty of good title free of liens and encumbrances to an initial purchaser served to waive seller's right to assert a lien against a subsequent purchaser from the initial purchaser.

  • Smith v. Brackett

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kendall Maurice Smith, Huntingdon, PA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dana Spring Monzo and Kelly Elizabeth Rowe, White & Williams, Wilmington, DE for defendants Brackett, Collins-Young and Davis-Wipf. Ryan Patrick Connell, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendant Burley.

    Case Number: D69036

    Defendants did not demonstrate that an inmate failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, but the court held that the complaint did not state a claim for violation of the inmate's constitutional rights regarding medical treatment.