• SOC-SMG, Inc. v. Day & Zimmermann, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-11
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction | Defense | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary W. Lipkin, Alexandra D. Rogin, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Martin S. Lessner, M. Paige Valeski, Alberto E. Chavez, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Attison L. Barnes, III, Krystal B. Swendsboe, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: D69501

    The court denied a motion to dismiss because plaintiff adequately alleged claims for breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing where defendant purportedly structured a settlement with a third party to avoid paying plaintiff.

  • Archer v. Defenders, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-04
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eyal Dror, Trief & Olk, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: J. Cory Falgowski, Burr & Forman LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ronald W. Flowers, H. Carlton Hilson, Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, AL for defendant.

    Case Number: D69486

    Court excluded evidence untimely produced in discovery by defendant, where defendant was grossly negligent in searching for the evidence and plaintiffs would be prejudiced by the delay in needing to review the evidence.

  • Moon v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

    Publication Date: 2021-07-07
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael C. McKay, McKay Law, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Beth Moskow-Schnoll, Brittany M. Giusini, Juliana R. van Hoeven, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Da-vid S. Fryman, Katherine J. Atkinson, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: D69459

    Retirement plan administrators owed fiduciary duties to plan participants and their beneficiaries, so the court denied defendant's motion to dismiss because plaintiff had plausibly alleged that defendant breached its duties by failing to provide him with information about the date on which he could being receiving full bene-fits.

  • Houston Cas. Co. v. Truist Fin. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2021-06-23
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Phillips, Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Gabriela Richeimer, Justin Levy, Clyde & Co. LLP, Washington, DC; Barry M. Klayman, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; John C. Goodchild III, Su Jin Kim, Aman-da Lashner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: D69442

    The court granted buyer's motion for summary judgment because the parties' purchase agreement required seller to indemnify buyer, but buyer's insurer was not entitled to summary judgment.

  • Discovery Educ., Inc. v. SchoolsPLP, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-06-23
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: E-Commerce | Education
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anna Shabalov, K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Adam V. Orlacchio, Brandon W. McCune, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason A. Snyderman, Huaou Yan, Blank Rome LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.

    Case Number: D69441

    The court dismissed plaintiff's claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because the complaint did not allege sufficient knowledge on defendant's part, but it denied the motion to dismiss claims for tortious interference with prospective business relations.

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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
    Industry:
    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.