• Killian v. The Int'l Soc'y of Interdisciplinary Eng'rs LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-01-31
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Education | Non-Profit | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE: David Wechsler, Daniel Grossman, Harris St. Lauren & Wechsler LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jessica C. Watt, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven Suflas, Ballard Spahr LLP, Salt Lake City, UT; Joseph J. Bailey, Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: N22C-05-11 EMD

    Court declined to dismiss breach of employment contract and wage claims as the parties had a genuine factual dispute over the basis for the termination of employee's employment contract, which could control whether employee was entitled to severance pay required by the agreement.

  • Giles v. Town of Elsmere

    Publication Date: 2023-01-03
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kate Butler, Kate Butler Law LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Scott G. Wilcox, Moore and Rutt, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N22M-02-006 EMD

    Mandamus relief seeking admission to state pension plan dismissed on statute of limitations grounds where municipal officer's alleged right to apply for admission to pension plan accrued upon hire nearly 10 years prior.

  • Gone GB Ltd. v. Intel Servs. Div., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-20
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: E-Commerce | Software
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Wilks, Wilks Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; David Leichtman, Leichtman Law PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Matthew E. Fischer, Jonathan A. Choa, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Vanessa Soriano Power, Stoel Rives LLP, Seattle, WA; Samantha K. Sondag, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR for defendants.

    Case Number: N21C-05-198 EMD CCLD

    Quasi-contractual claims failed where there was no evidence that plaintiffs performed any services or conferred any benefit on defendants beyond those expressly identified in the parties' written contract.

  • Freeman v. Carter

    Publication Date: 2022-11-29
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melissa Freeman, D. Robert Freeman, appellants pro se.
    for defendant: Jeffrey M. Weiner, The Law Offices of Jeffrey M. Weiner, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: N21C-09-081 EMD

    Contract and indemnification claims against real estate attorney failed where there was no evidence indicating the existence of a contractual or attorney-client relationship between the attorney and sellers, as the attorney expressly advised sellers that she was representing the buyers.

  • Estate of Barotz v. Vida Longevity Fund., L.P.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. Kelleher, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David P. Primack, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric A. Biderman, James M. Westerlind, Julius A. Rousseau Arent Fox LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: N20C-05-144 EMD CCLD

    The court granted plaintiff estate's motion for summary judgment on the grounds that defendant corporation was not entitled to collect decedent's life insurance proceeds because under 18 Del. C. §2704, the insurance policy was void due to lack of an insurable interest.

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  • Wu v. Delaware Tech. Cmty. Coll.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-01
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Education
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: N21C-07-045 EMD

    College was not liable under theories of negligence or fraud for phishing scheme that was enacted through hacking the college's email system, where student who fell victim to the scheme failed to identify any legal duty owed by the college or any fraudulent act committed by college officials.

  • Chapman v. AstraZeneca Pharm. LP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-18
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: N17C-04-320 PPI

    Medical expert testimony excluded where opinion was based on possibility rather than stated in terms of a reasonable degree of medical certainty.

  • Cipercen LLC v. Morningside Texas Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-09-27
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew K. Wegner, Brown Wegner LLP, Irvine, CA for plaintiffs/third-party plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patricia R. Urban., Megan Ix Brison, Pinckney Weidinger Urban & Joyce, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey Hurt, Hurt & Berry, LLP, Dallas, TX for defendant/counterclaim plaintiff. Francis G.X. Pileggi, Cheneise V. Wright, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dennis D. Leone, Sunjay D. Trehan, Shankman Leone, P.A., Tampa, FL for third-party defendant.

    Case Number: N19C-12-074 EMD CCLD

    The court granted both parties' motions to dismiss a fraudulent inducement and breach of contract case.

  • US Dominion, Inc. v. Fox Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Rodney Smolla, Wilmington, DE; Thomas A. Clare, Megan L. Meier, Dustin A. Pusch, Daniel P. Watkins, Clare Locke LLP, Alexandria, VA; Justin A. Nelson, Brittany Fowler, Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX; Stephen Shackelford, Jr., Elisha Barron, Susman Godfrey LLP, New York, NY; Davida Brook, Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Stephen E. Morrissey, Susman Godfrey LLP, Seattle, WA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Eric M. George, Katherine A. Petti, Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69873

    Parent corporation could be held directly liable for defamation per se by subsidiary news outlet where parent company executives were alleged to be intimately involved in the outlet's operations and to have not believed the veracity or validity of the defamatory news broadcasts and articles.

  • State v. Chattin

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew B. Frawley, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joshua Chattin, DE, pro se defendant.

    Case Number: D69877

    Postconviction motion dismissed as untimely where alleged newly discovered evidence was either known to defendant at the time of conviction or was not relevant to the trial proceedings.