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Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominick T. Gattuso, Elizabeth A. DeFelice, Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan K. Cooperman, Kelly Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Joseph L. Christensen, Christensen & Dougherty LLP, Wilmington, DE; Perrie M. Weiner, Baker & McKenzie, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter P. Tomczak, Michael D. Lehrman, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.
Case Number: N22C-07-133 EMD CCLD
Court declined to resolve breach of contract claim on summary judgment where parties had material factual disputes over the contractual conditions precedent to payment.
Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary F. Dugan, Emily V. Burton, Tanner C. Jameson, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Ethan H. Townsend, Daniel T. Menken, Ryan D. Konstanzer, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0671-LWW
Manager and member of LLC remained the manager of the company where the LLC agreement required his involvement and approval for any amendment, such that the other investors in the company could not unilaterally amend the agreement to remove the manager.
Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Consulting | Consumer Products
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Adams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. DiTomo, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: R. Bruce McNew, R. Grant Dick IV, Andrew A. Ralli, Cooch and Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N23C-03-032 MAA CCLD
Amendment to contract purporting to "accelerate" past due payments lacked consideration where defendant was already making payments.
Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Construction | Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary E. Junge, Scott E. Chambers, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0189-PAF
Court found that parties agreed to LLC agreement naming them equal members and co-managers, based on the parties' course of conduct following agreement that was consistent with the material terms of the agreement.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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