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Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Bankruptcy
Industry: Energy | Mining and Resources
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Porter
Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Barton, Barton and Burrows LLC, Mission, KS for appellants.
for defendant: Duston K. McFaul, Maegan Quejada, Sidley Austin LLP, Houston, TX; Robert S. Velevis, Sidley Austin LLP, Dallas, TX; Robert S. Brady, Edmon L. Morton, Kenneth J. Enos, Joseph M. Mulvihill, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP. Wilmington, Delaware; Ana Alfonso, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY; John H. Knight, Amanda R. Steele, Richards Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 22-1729
Wrongfully retained mineral royalties were not part of a debtor's estate where applicable state law granted lessors a property interest proceeds, meaning debtor had no equitable interest in the funds.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Bankruptcy
Industry: Legal Services
Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Judge: Judge Silverstein
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Case Number: 20-10343 (LSS)
Court denied ad hoc claimant committee's request for reimbursement of professional fees from the bankruptcy estate where its work appeared duplicative of the work performed by the estate and official committee of claimants and was contrary to facilitating resolution of an official committee's internal disputes.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Civil Rights
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Shwartz
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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Case Number: 22-3205
Prison officials were entitled to qualified immunity for removing mattress from cell of prisoner under psychological close observation to prevent the prisoner from using the mattress to harm himself or prevent monitoring.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Restrepo
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Meaghan Flannery, Matthew T. Newcomer, Jennifer A. Williams, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
for defendant: Salvatore C. Adamo, Hellertown, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 21-3316
Conducting criminal history check during routine traffic stop was justified by promoting officer safety and the fact that the short duration of the check posed a minimal burden.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LeGrow
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon R. Herling, Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP, New Castle, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Tabatha L. Castro, The Castro Firm, Inc., Newark, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 47, 2023
Treating physician's causation opinion, though not based on objective medical records, was not improperly speculative where the physician would be familiar with the potential complications of claimant's surgery and could conclude that her subsequent neck pain was a consequence of surgery to repair a work injury to her shoulder.
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Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Susan W. Waesco, Alexandra Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Samuel T. Hirzel, II, Jamie L. Brown, Aaron M. Nelson, Gillian L. Andrews, Brendan Patrick McDonnell, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph D. Pizzurro, Kevin A. Meehan, Juan O. Perla, Aubre G. Dean, Allesandra D. Tyler, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0778-PAF
Court set nominal bond as a condition for ordering the reissuance of a stock certificate, where there was no dispute over ownership of the stock and a low likelihood that the original certificate had been transferred or pledged, and where the corporation's liability for the certificate was limited by law to the value of the bond.
Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom | Transportation
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Renee M. Zaytsev, Constance M. Boland, Ned Babbitt, Thompson Hine LLP, New York, NY; Thomas Palmer, Thompson Hine LLP, Columbus, OH; Ryan Blackney, Thompson Hine LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiff.
for defendant: Michael A. Pittenger, Christopher N. Kelly, Tyler J. Leavengood, David A. Seal, Callan R. Jackson, Christopher D. Renaud, Ryan M. Ellingson, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-1013-LWW
Court denied stockholder's motion for a preliminary injunction to require company to allow stockholder's nominees to stand for election to the board and to grant the stockholder's request for exemption from a rights plan, where stockholder failed to present sufficient evidence to demonstrate its likelihood of prevailing on its breach of fiduciary duty claims against the board.
Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Patent Litigation
Industry: Agriculture | Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Andrews
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil A. Benchell, Timothy Devlin, Peter Akawie Mazur, Devlin Law Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Jeremy A. Tigan, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott R. Brown, Matthew B. Walters, Todd A. Gangel, Hovey Williams LLP, Overland Park, KS for defendant.
Case Number: 22-1394-RGA
Court construed patent terms as having their plain and ordinary meaning where there was no language in the patent specifications supporting limitations on the claim scope.
Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Bankruptcy
Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Judge: Judge Goldblatt
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Case Number: 23-11463 (CTG)
Court granted motion to dismiss debtor's bankruptcy petition where a receivership order entered by another district court stripped debtor of the authority to file a petition, since debtor could not launch a collateral attack on the merits of the district court's order or its jurisdiction.
Publication Date: 2023-12-11
Practice Area: Patent Litigation
Industry: Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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Case Number: 21-1247-CFC
Court referred plaintiffs' counsel for disciplinary investigations after finding that they acted at the direction of patent monetization firms rather than the named plaintiffs in the present patent infringement cases.
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