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Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, Mathew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N20C-04-126 EMD CCLD
Life insurance was void ab initio where parties without an insurable interest in the life of the decedent used Delaware statutory trusts to conceal the illegal nature of the policy and facilitate payment of policy premiums.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamie L. Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ian M. Ross, Sidley Austin LLP, Miami, FL for plaintiff.
for defendant: Lisa Zwally Brown, Brian T. Reed, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N23C-03-304 EMD CCLD
Although affirmative defenses of credits for excess payments or set-off were insufficiently pled, they were enough to put plaintiff on notice that defendants were contesting the amounts due, thereby precluding judgment on the pleadings.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Curry, Tayler D. Bolton, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Wales, Saxena White P.A., White Plains, NY; Adam Warden, Saxena White P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Andrew J. Peach, Jackson E. Warren, Jacob D. Jeifa, Wilmington, DE, Andrews & Springer LLC for plaintiff.
for defendant: Garrett B. Moritz, S. Reiko Rogozen, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven M. Farina, George A. Borden, Brian T. Gilmore, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Rachel R. Tunney, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Jeffrey B. Korn, Richard Li, Ciara A. Sisco, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0846-MTZ
Plaintiff failed to plead demand futility for derivative complaint where controller's ability to remove board members by itself could not establish a lack of independence and a majority of the board's financial ties did not prevent them from exercising independent judgment.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Food and Beverage
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Noreika
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Hulton, Lincoln University, PA, plaintiff pro se.
for defendant: Lauren Elizabeth Moak Russell, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 22-1584 (MN)
Employer was entitled to summary judgment where employee failed to rebut employer's legitimate, performance-based reasons for termination to show that those reasons were a pretext for disability discrimination.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Molly J. Bowen, Brendan Schneiderman, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC; Katherine Lubin Benson, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Nicholas Diamond, Gabriel A. Panek, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY; Ellen Rosenblum, Attorney General, Brian A. de Haan, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice, Portland, OR; Andrew E. Blumberg, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ned Weinberger, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher H. Lyons, Tayler D. Bolton, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, David A. Knotts, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Lee Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant:
Case Number: 2023-0418-JTL
Court granted the application of a plaintiff team to lead a consolidated derivative action where counsel had organized the stronger litigation team and the selected plaintiffs consistent of public agencies/officials with extensive financial experience.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Automotive
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Gallagher, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Anthony N. Delcollo, Michael K. DeSantis, Apla V. Batia, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: N23C-08-316 EMD
Court declined to dismiss disability discrimination claim where diabetes might qualify as a disability as defined by the ADA and employer was on notice of worker's need for accommodations for his diabetes.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Traynor
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Closic, Eric J. Juray, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Gregory V. Varallo, Andrew Blumberg, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: Stephen C. Norman, Jennifer C. Wasson, Tyler J. Leavengood, Christopher D. Renaud, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Doluisio, Brittany Zoll, Christopher J. Merken, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Matthew L. Larrabee, Hayoung Park, Julia Markham-Cameron, Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Michael D. Blanchard, Amelia Pennington, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA for appellees.
Case Number: 22, 2023
Chancery court erred in adopting West Virginia court's factual findings through judicial notice where such facts were disputed by the parties to the present action.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Nygaard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Abigail E. Horn, Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia, PA for appellant.
for defendant: Anthony J. Carissimi, Timothy M. Stengel, Robert A. Zauzmer, Office of United States Attorney, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 20-3298
Although officers displayed authority by blocking defendant and commanding him to stop, no seizure occurred where defendant's momentary pause followed by running from the officers meant he never complied with the officers' authority, and his flight gave the officers reasonable suspicion to detain him. Conviction affirmed, judgment of sentence vacated and remanded for resentencing.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Personal Injury
Industry: Education
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Noreika
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raeann Warner, Collins, Price & Warner, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Michael P. Stafford, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 23-457 (MN)
Court dismissed state law claims against school district arising from teacher's alleged sexual assaults where plaintiff failed to rebut district's assertion that those state law claims predominated over the single federal law claim asserted against the teacher.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Labor Law
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Williams
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance M. Geren, Ashley E. Macaysa, Paul D. Starr, O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue, New Castle, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Donald D. Gamburg, Immon Shafiei, Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
Case Number: 21-1563-GBW
Court upheld union grievance arbitration award where there was sufficient record evidence to support finding that employer's discovery of employee's on-the-job alcohol intoxication after terminating the employee for other reasons constituted after-acquired evidence.
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