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  • Avenatti v. Fox News Network, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-06-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Karl Hill, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Shawn R. Perez, Law Offices of Shawn R. Perez, Las Vegas, NV for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Eric D. Selden, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric M. George, Browne George Ross O’Brien Annaguey & Ellis LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69422

    Court struck amended complaint that added defendant identified in prior complaint where circumstances indicated that the joinder was solely for the purpose of destroying federal diversity jurisdiction.

  • United States ex rel. O'Bier v. TidalHealth Nanticoke, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-26
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. McLaughlin, Jr., Ferry Joseph, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Khouri, Khouri Law Firm, APC, Ir-vine, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian J. McLaughlin, Katherine Randolph Fry, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jennifer J. Coyne, Todd Reinecker, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, MD; Richard A. Robinson, Burr & Forman LLP, Wilming-ton, DE James A. Hoover, Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, AL; Martin S. Himeles, Jr., Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Baltimore, MD; Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Daniel A. Griffith, Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69409

    The court dismissed a complaint with prejudice because it failed to allege sufficient facts to support a cause of action under the federal False Claims Act with regard to an unlawful referral scheme.

  • In re NantHealth, Inc. Stockholder Derivative Litig.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-26
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Phillip Kim, The Rosen Law Firm, P.A., New York, NY; Matthew M. Houston, Benjamin I. Sachs-Michaels, Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, New York, NY; Robert V. Prongay, Pavithra Rajesh, Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Timothy Brown, The Brown Law Firm, P.C., Oyster Bay, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Lori W. Will, Ian R. Liston, Lindsay K. Faccenda, Jeremy W. Gagas, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69407

    Shareholder's derivative complaint barred by release in prior class action asserting direct shareholder claims where the release barred all claims that could be asserted by the shareholders, and derivative claims, though belonging to the corporation, were asserted by shareholders.

  • Scalia v. Local 1694, Int'l Longshoremen's Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2021-05-26
    Practice Area: Labor Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jesse S. Wenger, David C. Weiss, United States Attorney’s Office, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Lance M. Geren, Kathleen Bichner, O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue, LLP, New Castle, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69411

    Where a union violated federal law in its election process, the court ordered the union to conduct a new election under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor.

  • W.R. Berkley Corp. v. Dunai

    Publication Date: 2021-05-19
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott A. Holt, Curtis J. Crowther, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel C. Herr, Law Office of Daniel C. Herr LLC, Wilmington, DE; Kristen Prinz, Amit Bindra, The Prinz Law Firm, P.C., Chicago, IL for defendant.
    Case Number: D69405

    Provision for repayment of stock benefits did not constitute liquidated damages and plaintiff adequately stated its claim for relief, so the court denied defendant's motion to dismiss.

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  • Johnson-Krumm v. City of Seaford

    Publication Date: 2021-05-12
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Rosemary J. Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel A. Griffith, Kaan Ekiner, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69390

    Police had no constitutional duty to save a suspect in handcuffs who escaped the physical grasp of officers and tried to escape via a river where he drowned.

  • Roseboom v. Hunley

    Publication Date: 2021-05-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael I. Silverman, Silverman, McDonald & Friedman, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Dylan J. Steinberg, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69389

    Family members who were injured when a mail truck rear-ended them provided sufficient notice of their claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act. However, another family member failed to present his loss of con-sortium claim, so the court granted the motion to dismiss that claim.

  • Franklin v. Navient, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-05
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky R. Franklin, Stockbridge, GA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joelle Eileen Polesky, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69384

    Supreme Court's striking down of the government debt exception to Telephone Consumer Protection Act ban on robocalls as unconstitutional rendered the law void, such that defendant could not rely on that law to avoid liability.

  • Cephas v. Oliver

    Publication Date: 2021-05-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Renée Leverette, The Igwe Firm, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel C. Herr, Law Office of Daniel C. Herr, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Rosamaria Tassone-DiNardo, City of Wilmington Law Department, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69383

    Plaintiff sexually assaulted by police officer failed to adequately plead constitutional claims by identifying wanton negligence or deliberate indifference to officers' misconduct.