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Publication Date: 2024-06-03
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Weinberger, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gregory V. Varallo, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen E. Jenkins, Marie M. Degnan, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeroen van Kwawegen, Lauren A. Ormsbee, Thomas G. James, Margaret Sanborn-Lowing, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Martin S. Lessner, James M. Yoch, Jr., Kevin P. Rickert, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian J. Massengill, Michael Olsen, Matthew C. Sostrin, Linda X. Shi, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.
Case Number: 2018-0484-JTL
Court held buyer equally liable for seller's officers' breaches of fiduciary duties where buyer's culpability arose from its breaches of its contractual obligations under a standstill agreement with the seller.
Publication Date: 2024-06-03
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Biotechnology | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph L. Christensen, Christensen & Dougherty LLP., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Michael A. Pittenger, Justin T. Hymes, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2024-0172-PAF
Nominal corporate defendant failed to demonstrate need for continued confidential treatment of the complaint where company could not show how disclosure of remaining redacted information would cause harm to company's competitive advantage that outweighed the public interest in access.
Publication Date: 2024-06-03
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Non-Profit
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Adams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: “J” Jackson Shrum, Jack Shrum, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Dayna C. Cooper, Cooper Legal Solutions, Towson, MD for plaintiff.
for defendant: Tracey E. Timlin, Charles W. Fournier, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N23C-04-192 MAA
Court dismissed case due to failure to perfect timely service, lack of personal jurisdiction over one of the defendants, and venue being more proper in another jurisdiction.
Publication Date: 2024-06-03
Practice Area: Bankruptcy
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Hall
Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Christopher Shore, Colin T. West, White & Case LLP, New York, NY; Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Daniel M. Stern, Samuel M. Kidder, KTBS Law LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Andrew J. Gallo, Nathaniel P. Bruhn, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Boston, MA; Bryan Killian, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC; Michael R. Nestor, Michael S. Neiburg, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 15-11934 (BLS)
Court denied certification of direct appeal of bankruptcy order to the Third Circuit where the order did not announce a per se rule or conflict with settled precedent.
Publication Date: 2024-05-27
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins, Julie M. O’Dell, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan K. Waldrop, Marcus Barber, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, Redwood Shores, CA; Carolina Diaz-Martinez, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: John A. Sensing, P. Andrew Smith, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Bambo Obaro, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA; David J. Lender, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: N23C-04-086 EMD CCLD
Misappropriation claims were untimely where announcement of competing program was sufficient to put plaintiff on notice of potential misappropriation.
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Publication Date: 2024-05-27
Practice Area: Antitrust
Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Burke
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominick T. Gattuso, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; W. Gordon Dobie, Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL; Susannah P. Torpey, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY; Robert A. Julian, Baker & Hostetler LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Gary W. Lipkin, Michelle C. Streifthau-Livizos, Saul Ewing LLP, Wilmington, DE; Charles O. Monk, II, Jordan D. Rosenfeld, Saul Ewing LLP, Baltimore, MD; Jeffrey S. Robbins, Saul Ewing LLP, Boston, MA; Michael F. Brockmeyer, David S. Shotlander, Haug Partners LLP, Washington, D.C.; Ralph E. Labaton, Aakruti G. Vakharia, Haug Partners LLP, New York, NY; Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Erick J. Stock, Shireen Barday, Joshua Obear, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Beth Moskow-Schnoll, Tyler B. Burns, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam K. Levin, Benjamin Holt, Ilana Kattan, Kaitlyn Golden, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C. for defendants.
Case Number: 22-1302-CJB
Plaintiffs adequately pled antitrust claims by alleging various anticompetitive acts by defendants designed to prevent or delay market entry of competing products, which resulted in the failure of plaintiffs' product launch.
Publication Date: 2024-05-27
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Adams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: R. Karl Hill, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N21C-08-265 MAA
Plaintiff's personal injury claims arising from mold exposure were untimely where plaintiff filed suit more than two years after receiving a definitive diagnosis of mold allergies.
Publication Date: 2024-05-27
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Energy
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Williams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Wade Cephas, Newark, DE, pro se plaintiff.
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Case Number: 23-1295-GBW
Federal court lacked jurisdiction over wrongful termination claim where defendant was a private company and plaintiff failed to plausibly plead a claim under Title VII.
Publication Date: 2024-05-27
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: E-Commerce | Entertainment and Leisure | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rolin P. Bissell, Elena C. Norman, Kevin P. Rickert, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mary Eaton, Thomas Walsh, Christian Vandergeest, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kevin D. Galbraith, The Galbraith Law Firm, New York, NY; Sean R. O’Brien, A.J. Monaco, O’Brien LLP, New York, NY; Joseph Gallagher, Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0377-MTZ
Employment agreements' statement of parties' agreement to arbitrate claims generally and reference to AAA created presumption of parties' intention to delegate questions of substantive arbitrability to the arbitrator.
Publication Date: 2024-05-27
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Hall
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sonali Shahi, Assistant Federal Defender, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA for petitioner.
for defendant: Elizabeth R. McFarlan, Deputy Attorney General of the Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for respondents.
Case Number: 07-473-JLH
Motion to amend habeas petition denied where new claim did not relate back to original petition and was thus untimely.
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