• Navient Solutions LLC v. BPG Office Partners XIII Iron Hill LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Karl Hill, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey M. Weiner, Law Offices of Jeffrey M. Weiner, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N20C-04-005 KMM

    Court partially granted lender's motion to quash judgment creditor's writs of garnishment to collect on lender's collateral, where the court adopted the legal principle that a lender did not have to take affirmative steps to preserve its priority status over a lien creditor.

  • GMG Ins. Agency v. Margolis Edelstein

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Insurance | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Griffiths
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. Ippoliti, Ippoliti Law Group, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Sally J. Daugherty, Salmon, Ricchezza, Singer & Turchi, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D75841

    Trial court erred in dismissing legal malpractice complaint on a superseding cause defense where it failed to address plaintiff's contention that defendant's negligent representation resulted in the parties failing to prevail on all claims in the underlying action, which would have negated the superseding event.

  • Amazon.com, Svcs., LLC v. Rook

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristopher T. Starr, Marshall Dennehy, P.C., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean P. Gambogi, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, Newark, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: N23A-04-003 KMM

    Treatment falling outside Health Care Practice Guidelines could still be reasonable and necessary and thus compensable under workers' compensation, such that the Industrial Accident Board was not obligated to take judicial notice of the Guidelines where some of a claimant's treatment fell outside them.

  • Ramco Asset Mgmt., LLC v. USA Rare Earth, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Mining and Resources
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew St. Laurent, Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John M. Seaman, E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Chelsea Corey, King & Spalding LLP, Charlotte, NC; Carl D. Neff, Pierson Ferdinand LLP, Wilmington, DE; Aurora Cassirer, Christina H. Bost Seaton, FisherBroyles, LLP, New York, NY; Karen E. Keller, Andrew E. Russell, Nathan R. Hoeschen, Shaw Keller LLP, Wilmington, DE; Justin L. Ormand, Allen & Overy, New York, NY; Patrick W. Pearsall, Allen & Overy, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0665-SG

    Court declined to dismiss contract and good faith/fair duty claims where plaintiffs plausibly alleged that defendants breached their promise to convert plaintiffs' equity holdings to an identical equity percentage in the new entity.

  • Stanford v. Chimes of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Trina M. Stanford, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-663-RGA

    Court sua sponte dismissed employment discrimination claims due to insufficient allegations regarding employment status and exhaustion of administrative remedies.

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  • James v. Connolly

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon M. James, Wilmington, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-914-RGA

    Court sua sponte dismissed civil rights complaint upon screening where defendants were entitled to judicial immunity and plaintiff's allegations did not fall within the scope of a recognized Bivens claim.

  • Movora, LLC v. Gendreau

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Judson Scaggs, Jr., Grant E. Michl, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kevin M. Downey, R. Kennon Poteat III, Anna K. Tsiotsias, Ilana B. Frier, Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, S. Reiko Rogozen, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew W. Vail, Benjamin J. Bradford, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL; Michael L. Vild, Christopher P. Simon, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-05-034 MAA CCLD

    Court denied judgment on the pleadings for defendants in action to obtain contractual indemnification in business purchase agreement where plaintiffs' interpretation of the scope of the agreement's indemnification provision, including the amount of indemnification, was facially reasonable.

  • Int'l Constr. Prod., LLC v. Caterpillar Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Antitrust
    Industry: E-Commerce | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; William A. Isaacson, Amy J. Mauser, David E. Cole, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David J. Baldwin, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris, Wilmington, DE; Joseph A. Ostoyich, Danielle Morello, Clifford Chance LLP, Washington, D.C.; Paul C. Cuomo, Heather Souder Choi, Adam Dec, Baker Botts LLP, Washington, D.C. for defendants.

    Case Number: 15-108-RGA

    Sherman Act violation claim failed under the rule of reason where plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence to define the relevant geographic or product market, but removal of plaintiff's products from a website, which hampered its ability to compete, was sufficient evidence of refusal to deal.

  • Soleimani v. Hakkak

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian C. Ralston, T. Brad Davey, Charles P. Wood, Abraham C. Schneider, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Douglas P. Baumstein, Ellen Shapiro, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Mari Boyle, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Anthony M. Candido, Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-0948-LWW MEMORANDUM OPINION Date Submitted:

    Plaintiff's removal as an employee and manager of LLCs was ineffective where the operating agreements established payment of the fair market value of plaintiff's revenue share as a condition precedent to removal.

  • Applied Energetics, Inc. v. Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum PLLC

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry: Energy | Legal Services | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, James G. McMillan, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas + Kittila, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Robert J. Katzenstein, Robert K. Beste, Lauren A. Ferguson, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-07-200 EMD CCLD

    Court dismissed malicious prosecution claim against legal counsel where the claim arose from litigation filed in another jurisdiction and counsel lacked sufficient contacts to support general personal jurisdiction.