Ellen Bardash is ALM's reporter covering corporate litigation for Law.com and Delaware Business Court Insider. She can be contacted by emailing [email protected] or following @ellenbardash.bsky.social on Bluesky.
July 24, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
The Gap, Real Estate Owners Deadlocked in $66M Row Over Closed Stores' RentRetailers have asked that—because they did not know when entering into their leases that their stores would be forced to close—those leases be terminated and reformed.
By Ellen Bardash
3 minute read
July 23, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Investors, in Lawsuit, Accuse Tech Company of Making Subsidiary 'Judgment Proof'No part of the $57 million judgment or its accrued interest has been paid, and no bond has been put up to stay the judgment, according to the complaint.
By Ellen Bardash
3 minute read
July 22, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly
District of Delaware Pushes Back Jury Trial Scheduled to Be Among First Since ShutdownsA long-awaited intellectual property case involving the energy company Sunoco was one of the matters to be postponed indefinitely, as Chief Judge Leonard Stark said the continued bar on jury trials would be extended through the end of August as a safety precaution.
By Ellen Bardash
6 minute read
July 21, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Del. Court of Chancery Strikes Attempt to Mandate $400M Relocation Sale ClosureThe decision was made the same day oral arguments were made via Zoom, with Zurn stating she found, based on what was presented by Andrew Kassof, of Kirkland & Ellis, who argued the case on behalf of SIRVA, that Realogy, not SIRVA, caused the conditions of the deal to fail.
By Ellen Bardash
3 minute read
July 16, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Del. Trial Disputing Pandemic's Alleged Effect on Merger Cancelled After $1.43B AgreementThe agreement settles claims that were set to be addressed by the Delaware Court of Chancery in what would have been the first trial to consider COVID-19's effects on a company as a potential material adverse event that could warrant another company backing out of a deal.
By Ellen Bardash
3 minute read
July 15, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly
Remote Methods Keep Delaware Courts Moving During Pandemic EmergencyThe court's community relations chief said the largest backlogs of cases developed over the past several months in the courts that regularly see higher volumes of cases, including the Justice of the Peace Court, which kept three courts open to the public 24 hours a day, with restrictions, throughout the judicial state of emergency.
By Ellen Bardash
5 minute read
July 14, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly
SCOTUS Sets Del. Judicial Party Balance Case at Top of October CalendarLawyers for Gov. John Carney filed their writ of certiorari in September, arguing the appellate court's decision violated the state's sovereign power to determine qualifications for government officials
By Ellen Bardash
5 minute read
July 13, 2020 | Delaware Business Court Insider
Del. Court of Chancery Rejects State's AT&T Escheat SubpoenaAT&T Inc. will not be required to comply with a subpoena filed by the state's Department of Finance last year as part of an ongoing audit.
By Ellen Bardash
4 minute read
July 09, 2020 | Delaware Law Weekly
Black Job-Seeker Accuses Sallie Mae of Racial Discrimination in EmploymentAttorney Michelle Allen said her client's Gilder's experience with Sallie Mae qualifies as racial discrimination because the company's consideration of criminal histories brought "racial disparities in the criminal justice system into the employment process."
By Ellen Bardash
3 minute read
July 08, 2020 | Law.com
Delaware Bar Exam Moved to Fairgrounds to Enable Distancing for Record Number of CandidatesAll those present during the exam are expected to wear masks covering their mouths and noses and have their temperatures taken and be asked health questions at the door each day of the exam.
By Ellen Bardash
3 minute read
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