• Mitchell v. Thayer

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Griffiths
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Regina S.E. Murphy, Amy E. Tryon, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana L. Reynolds, Law Offices of Dana Reynolds, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 174, 2023

    Trial court erred in involuntarily terminating parental rights where there was insufficient evidence of parent's continuous intention to abandon custody over child, especially where parent expressed desire to reunite and remedied the conditions that led to child's guardianship.

  • Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. v. Ainslie

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Barr Flinn, Paul J. Loughman, Alberto E. Chávez, Skyler A. C. Speed, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David A. Paul, Virginia J. Cardenas, Sid Nadkarni, Cantor Fitzgerald, New York, NY; Benjamin R. Nagin, Eric G. Hoffman, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Tacy F. Flint, Frank J. Favia, Jr., Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL for appellant.
    for defendant: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch & Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kyle W. Roche, Kyle Roche P.A., New York, NY; Velvel Freedman, Alex Potter, Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 162, 2023

    A "forfeiture-for-competition" provision in a partnership agreement did not qualify as a restraint on trade, and thus partners who had negotiated and benefitted from such a term would be held to the terms of their agreement due to the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act's express favor for the enforceability of contracts.

  • 1205 Coastal, LLC v. Cove Owners Ass'n, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Berl, Hudson Jones Jaywork & Fisher, LLC, Lewes, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Aaron E. Moore, M. Claire McCudden, Marshall Dennehey, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: S22C-07-002 CAK

    Court dismissed former condominium owner's claims arising from the alleged failure to release a recorded lien, where owner's tender of payment was insufficient to satisfy the condominium association's recorded and statutory liens, as the association was not obligated to obtain a court judgment or record the statutory lien to collect.

  • Labyrinth, Inc. v. Urich

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake Rohrbacher, John D. Hendershot, Sandy Xu, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kira N. Lum, Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jesse L. Noa, Tyler E. Cragg, Andrew Moshos, Hannah L. Paxton, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-0327-MTZ

    Buyers in corporate acquisition adequately pled fraud claims where acquisition agreement expressly stated that seller had not changed its accounting practices even though seller's owners expressly accelerated the collection of accounts receivable, which made attached financials inaccurate.

  • State v. Calhoun

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian L. Arban, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Karl Schwartz, Catherine Trama, Wiseman & Schwartz, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: 1804000397

    Ineffective assistance of counsel claims failed where trial counsel's preparation and examination of witnesses was reasonable trial strategy to avoid playing into the state's theory of voluntary intoxication, and where any additional evidence was unlikely to have changed the verdict from guilty but mentally ill to not guilty by reason of insanity.

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  • Doubleline Capital GP LLC v. Barach

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Laura D. Smolowe, John M. Gildersleeve, Sara H. Worth, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael A. Barlow, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven G. Madison, Joseph Sarles, William Pilon, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0415-PAF

    Court affirmed arbitration award where defendants failed to present evidence sufficient to show that the arbitral panel's interpretation of the parties' agreements was palpably incorrect.

  • Hernandez v. Bayhealth Med. Ctr., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary E. Junge, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stacy A. Scrivani, Alexis R. Gambale, Stevens & Lee, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Lisa M. Scidurlo, Stevens & Lee, P.C., King of Prussia, PA; Michael M. Greenfield, Sasha A. Phillips, Stevens & Lee, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Theresa M. Zechman, Stevens & Lee, P.C., Lancaster, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-1283-RGA

    Court declined to dismiss religious discrimination claim where terminated employee adequately pled sincerely held religious belief supporting her objection to COVID-19 vaccines.

  • In re: Ursa Operating Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Porter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Barton, Barton and Burrows, LLC, Mission, KS for appellants.
    for defendant: Duston K. McFaul, Maegan Quejada, Sidley Austin LLP, Houston, TX; Robert S. Velevis, Sidley Austin LLP, Dallas, TX; Robert S. Brady, Edmon L. Morton, Kenneth J. Enos, Joseph M. Mulvihill, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, DE; Ana Alfonso, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, New York, NY; John H. Knight, Amanda R. Steele, Richards Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-1729

    Lower courts erroneously dismissed adversary complaint of property owners to recover improperly withheld oil and gas royalties where property owners, not extractor, had an equitable interest in the funds, and thus a constructive trust was an appropriate mechanism for relief.

  • In re: Veale

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge McKee
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-3212

    Court affirmed dismissal of adversary complaint by creditor where there was no evidence supporting a claim of non-dischargeability of a personal guarantee of a business loan.

  • Goldstein v. Denner

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin H. Davenport, John G. Day, Jason W. Rigby, Prickett, Jones & Elliot P.A., Wilmington, DE; R. Bruce McNew, Cooch & Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Wilmington; DE; Randall J. Baron, Rick T. Atwood, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Brett Middleton, Johnson Fistel, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Sameer Advani, Richard Li, M. Annie Houghton-Larsen, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2020-1061-JTL

    Court imposed sanctions in the form of a factual presumption on a key issue, which defendants could only rebut with clear and convincing evidence, after defendants admittedly took no action to preserve electronically stored information in response to litigation hold notices.