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Publication Date: 2023-10-30
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Primos
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walt F. Schmittinger, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Andrea C. Panico, Megan E. Traynor, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: K23A-01-001 NEP
Although worker contracted COVID-19 in an area of the workplace where the risk of transmission was greater than the general risk attending employment, that increased risk was not linked to any peculiar or specific aspect of the worker's job and thus his COVID-19 did not qualify as an occupational disease.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Wharton
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Lewis Welch, Doroshaw, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Keri L. Morris-Johnson, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: N22A-11-003 FWW
Industrial Accident Board erred in failing to consider claimant's individual circumstances in determining whether claimant had exhausted reasonable conservative treatment and thus had made surgical treatment reasonable and necessary.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Energy | Insurance
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Travis S. Hunter, Alexandra M. Ewing, Srinivas M. Raju, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David P. Bender, Jr., Joseph G. Balice, Haynes and Boone LLP, Costa Mesa, CA; Benjamin L. Mesches, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX; Brian Singleterry, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Fort Worth, TX; Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Herber Beigel, Law Offices of Herbert Beigel, Tuscon, AZ for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Leland H. Jones, Chiara Tondi Resta, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC; John C. Phillips, Jr., David Bilson, Phillips McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael P. Duffy, Scarlett M. Rajbanshi, Boston, MA; Erica J. Kerstein, Robinson & Cole LLP, New York, NY; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Ropers Majeski, P.C., New York, NY; Marc S. Casarino, Kennedys CMK LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sean P. Mahoney, Michael E. DiFebbo, Kennedys CMK LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.
Case Number: N21C-01-260 EMD CCLD
Court denied entry of partial judgment on issue that the court entered summary judgment for plaintiffs, where plaintiffs would not be unduly prejudiced by the delay in being able to appeal and where partial judgment could lead to piecemeal litigation and appeals as the resolved issue was not a predicate issue for the rest of the case.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Restrepo
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cary L. Flitter, Andrew M. Milz, Jody T. López-Jacobs, Flitter Milz, Narberth, PA; Brent F. Vullings, Vullings Law Group, LLC, Collegeville, PA for appellants.
for defendant: David P. Helwig, Marks O’Neill O’Brien Doherty & Kelly, Pittsburgh, PA; Cecil J. Jones, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 21-2430
District court erred in ruling that furnisher of consumer credit information was exempt from obligation to investigate indirect dispute referred by a consumer reporting agency upon deeming the dispute frivolous, where the Fair Credit Reporting Act expressly granted that exception solely to consumer reporting agencies for indirect disputes.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Premises Liability
Industry: Retail
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Fallon
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael P. Minuti, McCann Dillon Jaffe & Lamb, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Gardenia L. Brooman, Verlin & Brooman, LLC, Bala Cynwyd, PA for plaintiff.
for defendant: William R. Adams, Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, Wilmington, DE; Sean T. Stadelman, Stephen A. Sheinen, Goldberg Segalla LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.
Case Number: 22-76-SRF
Injured decedent's interrogatory responses were admissible under the residual hearsay exception as they were sufficiently trustworthy due to being made under penalty of perjury and were corroborated by other evidence.
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Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Energy
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Griffiths
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Yoch, Alberto E. Chávez, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, DE; Paul D. Clement, Matthew D. Rowen, Clement & Murphy, PLLC, Alexandria, VA for appellants.
for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Susan Wood Waesco, Matthew R. Clark, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Antony L. Ryan, Kevin J. Orsini, Michael P. Addis, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for appellee.
Case Number: 391, 2022
Chancery court's determination that counterparty did not breach merger agreement was supported by record evidence demonstrating that company continued to use best efforts to consummate the merger, entitling it to reimbursement of a prior termination fee and precluding liability for a breakup fee.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Williams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Q. Webb, pro se plaintiff.
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-670-GBW
The court dismissed plaintiff's second amended complaint for failure to state a claim under the screening provision where he essentially asserted identical allegations as in the amended complaint and had therefore failed to remedy the deficiencies outlined by the court.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Brennan
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Betts, Department of Justice, for the State of Delaware.
for defendant: James M. Stiller for defendant.
Case Number: 2211005299
A reasonable, articulable suspicion existed to conduct a DUI investigation when defendant purposefully popped his muffler as he drove raising the equipment violation to the level of impaired judgment. Defendant's motion to suppress denied.
Publication Date: 2023-10-23
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge LeGrow
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin S. Gifford, IV, The Law Office of Benjamin S. Gifford IV, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Brian L. Arban, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 112, 2021
The Delaware Supreme Court held that a postconviction petition will not be mooted by a defendant's completion of his sentence after the petition is filed if the defendant pleads that there are continuing collateral consequences arising from the conviction.
Publication Date: 2023-10-16
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Insurance
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Melinda A. Nicholson, Nicolas Kravitz, Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC, New Orleans, LA; Benjamin I. Sachs-Michaels, Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, New York, NY; Robert V. Prongay, Pavithra Rajesh, Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Nicholas F. Mastria, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jonathan Youngwood, Janet A. Gochman, Jacob Lundqvist, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0034-LWW
Court dismissed shareholders' derivative complaint for failure to plead demand futility where plaintiffs' fiduciary claims against the company's directors and officers failed to set forth a prima facie case of personal liability such that the board could not independently consider a litigation demand.
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