• Jacam Chem. Co. 2013, LLC v. Jacam Chem. Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul D. Brown, Joseph B. Cicero, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Janet A. Hendrick, Michele C. Spillman, Angela M. Buchanan, Phillips Murrah P.C., Dallas, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: P. Clarkson Collins, Jr., K. Tyler O’Connell, Kirsten Zeberkiewicz, Morris James, Wilmington, DE; Sean D. Walsh, Scott R. Schillings, Matthew K. Holcomb, Hinkle Law Firm, Wichita, KS for defendants.

    Case Number: 2021-0659-SG

    Contractual limitations period rendered breach of asset purchase agreement facially untimely, and there were no allegations of misconduct by defendants that would warrant tolling the limitation period.

  • Zurich Am. Ins. Co. v. Sygenta Crop Prot., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Balaguer, Lindsey E. Imbrogno, Balaguer Milewski & Imbrogno, Wilmington, DE; Michael M. Marick, Timothy H. Wright, Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: Stephen E. Jenkins, Catherine A. Gaul, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Dorthea W. Regal, Joshua L. Blosveren, Miriam J. Manber, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for appellee.

    Case Number: 135, 2023

    Communications threating litigation at some indefinite time in the future without identifying claimants or requesting monetary relief were insufficient to constitute a "claim for damages" that would trigger or bar liability insurance coverage.

  • Marqunez v. Dole Food Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Mass Torts
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates P.A., Wilmington, DE; Scott M. Hendler, Hendler Flores Law, Austin, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Wasson, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ryan D. Stottmann, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam V. Orlacchio, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., Phillips Goldman & Spence P.A., Wilmington, DE; Andrea E. Neuman, Mary Beth Maloney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; William E. Thomson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael L. Brem, Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia Brem LLP, Houston, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 12-695-RGA

    Court declined to grant summary judgment for defendants where the parties' joint expert persuasively opined that plaintiffs' complaint qualified as a protective action under relevant Ecuadoran law, making plaintiffs' claims not time-barred under the Delaware borrowing statute.

  • In re: Maxus Energy Corp.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Goldblatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 16-11501 (CTG)

    Creditor's cross-motion for leave to file an amended proof of claim denied where, once the bar date for filing proof of claims has passed, a proof of claim typically cannot be amended to add claims that were not included within the scope of the original proof of claim that did not put the debtor and other interested parties on notice of the extent of the amended claim.

  • Sapp v. Indus. Action Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Ambro
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maureen Farrell, Adam T. Muery, Muery & Farrell, Austin, TX for appellants
    for defendant: David J. Baldwin, Berger Harris, Wilmington, DE; Irving M. Geslewitz, Edward D. Shapiro, Much Law, Chicago, IL for appellees.

    Case Number: 22-2181

    District court erred in ordering arbitration where dispute resolution clause imposing narrow scope of review of solely factual issues during a short window of time indicated that the dispute resolution provision constituted an expert determination rather than an arbitration.

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  • Arcelik A.S. v. EI DuPont de Nemours & Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-20
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Greenaway
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher F. Cannataro, April M. Ferraro, John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss, Wilmington, DE; Christopher M. Ryan, Shearman & Sterling, Washington, DC for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon R. Harper, John A. Sensing, Potter Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-2634

    Global parent corporation did not qualify as the manufacturer of allegedly defective components which were made by a foreign subsidiary using materials produced by a third-party supplier, where the parent did not control the day-to-day manufacturing operations and merely established product standards.

  • Maxus Liquidating Trust v. YPF S.A.., L.P.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Goldblatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-50489 (CTG)

    The court denied plaintiff's motion to compel the production of documents protected under the attorney-client privilege doctrine.

  • The Samuel J. Heyman 1981 Continuing Trust for Lazarus S. Heyman v. Ashland LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Lafferty, Miranda N. Gilbert, John P. DiTomo, Lauren N. Bennett, Thomas P. Will, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert N. Hochman, Heather Benzmiller Sultanian, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL; Eamon P. Joyce, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Andrew J. Rossman, Jonathon B. Oblak, Nicholas Hoy, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Christopher Viceconte, Gibbons, P.C., Wilmington DE; Jennifer A. Hradil, William S. Hatfield, Camille V. Otero, Joshua R. Elias, Gibbons, P.C., Newark, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 279, 2021

    Court reversed Superior Court's ruling in a breach of contract case finding that the clear and unambiguous language of the stock-purchasing agreement allocated all off-site environmental cleanup liabilities to appellee.

  • 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.

  • State ex rel. Jennings v. Monsanto Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-26
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christian Douglas Wright, Ralph K. Durstein, III, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Amy Williams-Derry, Daniel Mensher, Alison S. Gaffney, Keller Rohrback L.L.P., Seattle, WA; Keil Mueller, Steve Larson, Emily Johnson, Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter P.C., Portland, OR for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Christian J. Singewald, Timothy S. Martin, Daryll Hawthorne-Searight, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas M. Goutman, David S. Haase, Kim Kocher, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Philadelphia, PA; Adam E. Miller, Susan L. Werstak, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., St. Louis, MO; Richard L. Campbell, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Boston, MA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69901

    State's regulatory control over public lands and waters was insufficient to confer standing to assert a trespass claim arising from alleged environmental contamination where trespass required exclusive possession.