• Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP v. Bandera Master Fund LP

    Publication Date: 2023-01-03
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory | Transportation
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Savitt, Sarah K. Eddy, Adam M Gogolak, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen P. Lamb, Andrew G. Gordon, Harris Fischman, Robert N. Kravitz, Carter E. Greenbaum, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Srinivas M. Raju, Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rolin P. Bissell, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Daniel G. Paterno, Eric A. Veres, Samuel D. Cordle, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 2021-0700-PWG

    Member controlling general partner in Master Limited Partnership was correct party to determine whether opinion of counsel to exercise call right was acceptable, meaning that general partner and related entities were exculpated from liability to limited partners due to the presumption of good faith in reliance on opinion of counsel imposed by the limited partnership agreement.

  • Griffith v. Stein

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony A. Rickey, Margrave Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Raffi Melkonian, Wright Close & Bargar, LLP, Houston, TX for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Farnan, Michael Farnan, Rosemary Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Arnold Gershon, Michael A. Toomey, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, New York, NY; Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert J. Giuggra, Jr., David M.J. Rein, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY; Kevin M. Gallagher, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: D69949

    Court reversed the chancery court's decision approving a litigation settlement which included forward-looking statements that bound absent interested parties from bringing claims in the future, in violation of the Due Process Clause.

  • Croda Inc. v. New Castle County

    Publication Date: 2022-08-09
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Forsten, Pamela J. Scott, Elizabeth S. Fenton, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen A. Swedlow, Athena D. Dalton, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Chicago, IL for appellant.
    for defendant: Mary A. Jacobson, Nicholas J. Brannick, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69910

    Lack of proper notice of zoning amendment could not render challenge to county ordinance timely under statute of repose where tolling was not applicable to statutes of repose.

  • Diep v. Trimaran Pollo Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-07-12
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph N. Sianni, Andersen Sleater Sianni LLC, Wilmington, DE; Hung G. Ta, JooYun Kim, Natalia D. Williams, HGT LAW, New York, NY; Peter Safirstein, Safirstein Metcalf LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Jamie L. Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam H. Offenhartz, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Tyler H. Amass, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Denver, CO for appellees.

    Case Number: D69883

    Chancery court properly granted corporation's special litigation committee's motion to dismiss derivative claims, where there was not sufficient evidence to raise a material dispute regarding the independence of the SLC or the reasonableness of the findings of the SLC's investigation into the claims.

  • Delmarsh, LLC v. Envt'l Appeals Bd. of the State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2022-05-24
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Abbott, Abbott Law Firm, Hockessin, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Kayli H. Spialter, Delaware Department of Justice, New Castle, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: D69826

    Environmental Appeals Board properly interpreted statutory definition of "wetlands" as not being restricted solely to lands experiencing daily tidal flow, where the Wetlands Act expressly encompassed land features that did not necessarily have daily tides.

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  • Droz v. Hennessy Indus., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-04-19
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Dalton, Bartholomew J. Dalton, Ipek Kurul, Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam L. Balick, Michael Collins Smith, Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian D. Tome, Reilly, Mcdevitt & Henrich, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Susan M. Valinis, Reilly, Mcdevitt & Henrich, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: D69784

    Plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to overcome summary judgment through circumstantial evidence demonstrating that decedent used asbestos-containing products on defendant's arc grinder machine.

  • First Solar, Inc. v. Nat'l Union First Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2022-03-29
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam S. Ziffer, Meredith Elkins, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & Mckenna LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, Arthur Luk, Omomah Abebe, Kolya D. Glick, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; John C. Phillips, Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips Mclaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Charles C. Lemley, Kim Melvin, Anna Schaffner, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C. for appellees.

    Case Number: D69760

    The court agreed with the lower court that plaintiff's claim was excluded from coverage but held that whether a claim related back to an earlier claim was decided by the language of the policy, not the generic fundamentally identical standard used by the lower court.

  • Page v. Oath, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: Consulting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean J. Bellew, Bellew LLC, Wilmington, DE; Todd V. McMurtry, Hemmer DeFrank Wessels, PLLC, Ft. Mitchell, KY; K. Lawson Pedigo, Miller Keffer & Pedigo, PLLC, Dallas, TX for plaintiff below, appellant.
    for defendant: T. Brad Davey, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Elbert Lin, David M. Parker, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Richmond, VA; Jonathan D. Reichman, Jennifer L. Bloom, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, New York, NY, for defendant below, appellee.

    Case Number: D69696

    The court held that plaintiff was required to plead actual malice in his defamation suit against defendant who owned online news organizations and published articles concerning investigation into plaintiff's connection to Russian figures because the articles were substantially true.

  • Ace Am. Ins. Co. v. Rite Aid Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-25
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Pharmaceuticals | Retail
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE;Marc S. Casarino, White & Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan D. Hacker, ; O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Michael S. Shuser, Blair E. Kaminsky, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York, NY for, appellants.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gerald P. Konkel; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, D.C.; William R. Peterson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Houston, TX; Christopher M. Popecki, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles, CA for appellees.

    Case Number: D69688

    The court held that the suit against the defendants for which plaintiffs sought defense coverage under its liability policy did not allege damages that were covered by the insurance policy such that the insurer had no duty to defend. Reversed decision of lower court.

  • AB Stable VIII LLC v. MAPS Hotels & Resorts One LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Sarah A. Clark, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Theodore N. Mirvis, William Savitt, Sarah K. Eddy, Ryan A. McLeod, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Theodore B. Olson, Amir C. Tayrani, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Adam H. Offenhartz, Marshall R. King, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Michael A. Barlow, April M. Kirby, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Michael B. Carlinsky, William B. Adams, Christopher D. Kercher, Rollo C. Baker IV, Todd G. Beattie, Jonathan E. Feder, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Kap-You Kim, Peter & Kim Attorneys at Law, Seoul, South Korea for appellees.

    Case Number: D69651

    Seller of hotel businesses breached ordinary course covenant by making material changes to operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where the covenant did not contain a material adverse event exception and where seller failed to obtain buyer's consent to the changes.