• Frontline Tech. Parent, LLC v. Murphy

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Education | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurence C. Cronin, Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; William J. Leahy, Tanner McCarron, Littler Mendelson, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Richard P. Rollo, Travis S. Hunter, Tyler E. Cragg, Griffin A. Schoenbaum, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-0546-LWW

    Former employees did not breach non-compete agreements where the agreements specifically defined competition as in the business lines of the employer's parent company rather than the employer that the employees worked for.

  • Steward Health Care Sys. LLC v. Tenet Bus. Serv. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Barlow, Adam K. Schulman, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony Bongiorno, Jessica Reese, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Boston, MA; Rollo C. Baker IV, Eric White, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Lewis H. Lazarus, K. Tyler O’Connell, Albert J. Carroll, Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Timothy W. Knapp, Brendan E. Ryan, Kent J. Hayden, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0289-SG

    Finding that that the asset purchase agreement executed by the parties had created a scheme for prorating Medicaid reimbursement distribution payments relating to the year in which closing on the hospitals occurred consistent with defendants' construction of the agreement, the court granted partial summary judgment to defendants.

  • Bone v. XTO Energy, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Consulting | Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Slomsky
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 21-1460

    Court declined to dismiss Fair Labor Standards Act overtime action where defendant controlled the means of plaintiffs' work and plaintiffs had no opportunity for business profit or loss or to market their services to other companies.

  • Backertop Licensing LLC v. Canary Connect, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Finger, Finger & Slanina, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Jimmy C. Chong, Chong Law Firm, PA, Wilmington, DE; Ronald W. Burns, Frisco, Texas for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Alan Richard Silverstein, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark K. Suri, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL; Jeremy Douglas Anderson, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Ricardo J. Bonilla, Fish & Richardson, P.C., Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 22-572-CFC

    Court imposed a civil contempt sanction upon plaintiff's owner for her failure to appear for questioning by the court as ordered, as the court had the inherent authority to impose contempt to enforce its lawful orders.

  • Morra v. 700 Marvel Rd. Operations, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Gallagher, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Geoffrey G. Grivner, Kody M. Sparks, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N22C-03-213 CEB

    PREP Act immunity did not apply to complaint alleging ordinary negligence by a nursing home in failing to take steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to residents.

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  • Tyger v. Precision Drilling Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin L. Swidler, Swartz Swidler, Haddonfield, NJ for appellants.
    for defendant: Kimberly Cheeseman, Michael C. Crow, Katherine D. Mackillop, Norton Rose Fulbright, Houston, TX for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-1613

    Court adopted test to determine whether employer required clothing or protective/safety gear was integral to an employee's job duties, which included factors such as the location of changing, whether government regulations required the clothing/gear, and the type of clothing or gear involved.

  • Wolff v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Elliott, Kyle M. Elliott, Stewart J. Greenleaf, Jr., Mark J. Schwemler, Elliott Greenleaf, Blue Bell, PA for petitioner.
    for defendant: Charles Kannebecker, Milford, PA for respondent.

    Case Number: 22-8056

    The issue before the court was when the timeframe for filing an interlocutory appeal of a class certification order could be extended under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f), which authorizes interlocutory review of orders "granting or denying class-action certification" of petitions filed within 14 days of the order. Here, petitioner filed a Rule 23(f) petition 14 days after the district court had revised its class certification order but months after the original order certifying the class. Respondent, who had received disabilit

  • Beautycon Media ABC Trust v. New General Market Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Counsel: Kevin M. Capuzzi, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Paul D. Brown, Mark L. Desgrosseilliers, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; F. Maximilian Czernin, Peter R. Morrison, Squire Patton Boggs, LLP, Cincinnati, OH for defendant.

    Case Number: N22C-12-143 MAA CCLD

    Plaintiff, in its capacity as trustee of plaintiff's company, filed suit against the company's investor for breach of contract, fraudulent inducement, and tortious interference with prospective contractual relations, as well as other claims that had been dismissed. Plaintiff alleged that, when its company had been in a precarious financial situation which had been known by defendant, defendant had intentionally interfered with a prospective deal the company was negotiating with another investor by actively discouraging the deal within

  • In Re: Proton Pump Inhibitors Prod. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Martin Bienstock, Bienstock PLLC, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James J. Freebery, Daniel J. Brown, Makenzie Windfelder, Hayley J. Reese, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Arthur E. Brown, William Hoffman, Matthew Douglas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Amy K. Fisher, Katherine D. Althoff, Carolyn E. Riggs, Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Craig A. Thompson, Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-07-001 PPI

    Plaintiff brought the underlying personal injury action against defendants alleging that defendants were responsible for developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing proton pump inhibitor products that were unsafe, defectively designed, lacked proper warnings, and were unfit to be marketed and sold in the United States. Defendants individually and collectively moved to dismiss the claims. Plaintiff brought the case as administrator of a health care plan directly and as subrogee of its members' claims for a variety of injurie

  • In re AMC Ent. Holdings, Inc. Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark Lebovitch, Edward Timlin, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, New York, NY; Michael J. Barry, Kelly L. Tucker, Jason M. Avellino, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Thomas Curry, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Matthew W. Murphy, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John A. Neuwirth, Joshua S. Amsel, Tanner S. Stanley, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-0215-MTZ

    Court approved non-opt-out class for direct stockholder breach of fiduciary duty claims where obtaining opt-outs would be impractical under the circumstances and the proposed settlement provided relief to the entire class.