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Delaware Business Court Insider

Glasscock Ruling Sets Up Trial in Suit Over Sale of Medical Device Company

The Delaware Court of Chancery has cleared the way for trial in an investor challenge to a deal that handed control of medical device company Halt Medical Inc. to a private equity firm in 2014.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Bouchard Addresses Nature of Derivative Claims in Decision Tossing Challenge to Design Within Reach Merger

The Delaware Court of Chancery on Friday rejected a "novel theory" to expand the state's narrow doctrine allowing some claims to be treated as both derivative and direct. The rejection comes in a decision that nixed an investor lawsuit seeking to undue the $124 million merger of Herman Miller and Design Within Reach.
4 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Gibson Dunn's Estrada and Weigel Strike Gold in Venezuela Fight

Miguel Estrada and Robert Weigel's client wasn't the first company to have its assets seized by the government of Venezuela—but the Gibson Dunn duo was the first to come up with a viable way for them to collect what they're owed.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Split Appeals Court Finds for Landlords in Rent Overcharge Disputes Who Received Tax Abatement

In a victory for New York residential landlords, the majority on a divided Manhattan appeals court found that there is a hard four-year limit to calculate damages in rent overcharge cases involving buildings where landlords are reaping the benefits of a controversial and complex tax abatement credit.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Has Federal Pre-emption Killed Drug Design Litigation?

The common law of products liability traditionally posits three major theories of liability: defectively manufactured products; defectively designed products; and those rendered defective because of absent or inadequate warnings.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

On the Critical Use of Forms: Handy Tools With a Few Exceptions

Being thorough is a primary hallmark of a good attorney. Litigation provides many opportunities to be thorough—or to miss a small detail. In order to avoid an error, it is therefore tempting to be too thorough.
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Glasscock Scales Back Fair Value in AOL Appraisal

Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock III granted competing motions for reargument in the high-profile appraisal case after both sides questioned the treatment of financial inputs that led him to set a fair value below the $50 per share price Verizon Communications Inc. paid.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Recently Retired Phila. Commerce Court Judge Heads to ADR

After nearly 25 years on the bench handling numerous high-profile cases and becoming a part of the court's leadership, McInerney is gearing up to take that expertise to JAMS where she will do private alternative dispute resolution.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Tinder Founders Swipe Right on Gibson Dunn's Orin Snyder in $2B Suit

In a New York State Supreme Court lawsuit, Tinder co-founders and key employees allege that the parent companies manipulated financial information to undercut the value of their stock options.
9 minute read

The Recorder

New Cannabis Industry Suit Alleges Fraudulent Business Practices

"This is a case involving new and promising areas of business and technology," the lawsuit claims. "It is also a case involving some of the oldest and most unfortunate business practices: making promises knowing that they cannot be kept."
4 minute read

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