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  • Coronado Coal II, LLC v. Blackhawk Land & Res., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-01-24
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Geoffrey Grivner, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Wilmington, DE; Gretchen Jankowski, Jordan Webster, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Pittsburg, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John Sensing, Carson Bartlett, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; M. Shane Harvey, Jackson Kelly PLLC, Charleston, WV for defendant.
    Case Number: 2022-0039-AML

    Court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to resolve procedural arbitrability claims where those claims did not implicate the fundamental fairness of the arbitration as the parties' contract expressly gave one side the ability to appoint both arbitrators after the other party had expressly refused to appoint its own arbitrator.

  • Coronado Coal II, LLC v. Blackhawk Land & Res. LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-06-14
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Geoffrey Grivner, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Wilmington, DE; Gretchen Jankowski, Jordan Webster, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooner PC, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiff
    for defendant: John Sensing, Carson Bartlett, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington DE; M. Shane Harvey, Jackson Kelly PLLC, Charleston, WV for defendant.
    Case Number: D69851

    Coal lease's arbitration clause encompassed both lessee's rights to mine coal from the leased seam and the non-severable obligation not to injure the rights of others to mine other seams.

  • Sheehan v. AssuredPartners, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-17
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin S. Lessner, Lauren Dunkle Fortunato and Kevin P. Rickert, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Gregory P. Williams, Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri and Kevin M. Regan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph G. Santoro and Roger W. Feicht, Gunster, West Palm Beach, FL for defendants.
    Case Number: D69018

    Plaintiffs stated claims for breach of their employment agreements and for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, but the court granted defendants' motion to dismiss the remainder of their claims.