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  • Wooten v. City of Wilmington, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-02-24
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theopalis K. Gregory, Isaac H. Green, Jr., Law Office of Theopalis Gregory Sr., Wilmington, DE for plain-tiff.
    for defendant: Caitlyn E. Quinn, Laura Najemy, City of Wilmington Law Dep’t, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69309

    Employee stated a claim for retaliation because she was engaged in a protected employee activity, but the court granted employer's motions to dismiss other employment claims.

  • In re: PES Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-01-20
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Energy | Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Damian S. Schaible, James I. McClammy, David B. Toscano, Aryeh Ethan Falk, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY; Robert J. Dehney, Andrew R. Remming, Paige N. Topper, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard I. Werder, Jr, Deborah Newman, David M. Cooper, Zachary Russell of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; William P. Bowden, Stacy L. Newman, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69266

    An intercreditor agreement designated the party who had a first priority security interest with respect to the proceeds of certain business interruption insurance.

  • In re Advance Auto Parts, Inc. Sec. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Bradford deLeeuw, Deleeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Sharan Nirmul, Jonathan F. Neumann, Raphael Janove, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA; Stacey M. Kaplan, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Samuel A. Nolen, Katharine L. Mowery, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Douglas P. Baumstein, Claudine Columbres, Susan L. Grace, Camille M. Shepherd, Sequoia Kaul, White & Case LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D69200

    Certification of class counsel in securities action granted where establishment of all but one of the Cammer and Krogman factors supported a presumption of market efficiency in defendant company's publicly-traded stock.

  • Pestell v. Cytodyn Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-25
    Practice Area: Wage and Hour Litigation
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Hochman, Monzack Mersky McLaughlin and Browder, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Steven M. Coren, Benjamin M. Mather, Janice I. Daul, Kaufman, Coren & Ress, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Timothy M. Holly, Aaron M. Shapiro, Lauren P. DeLuca, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Laurence V. Cronin, Robert K. Beste III, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69203

    The court dismissed plaintiff's Pennsylvania wage claim because he did not qualify as an employee under that state's law.

  • Berhmann v. Brandt

    Publication Date: 2020-10-21
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan M. Ernst, O’Kelly Ernst & Joyce, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Thomas J. McKenna, Gregory M. Egleston, Gainey McKenna & Egleston, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Paul J. Lockwood, Jenness E. Parker, Veronica B. Bartholomew, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69158

    Dismissal of derivative complaint for failure to adequately plead demand futility and failure to state a claim granted without prejudice, where plaintiffs were given leave to move to amend their complaint and assert amendments and additional allegations that would cure the pleading deficiencies of their complaint.

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  • Sprint Commc'ns Co. L.P. v. Mediacom Commc'ns Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-07
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/A
    for defendant: Andrew C. Mayo, Steven J. Balick, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Robinson Vu, Natalie Alfaro Gonzales, Lindsay Volpenheim Cutié, Amy Bergeron, Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX; Timothy S. Durst, Baker Botts L.L.P., Dallas, TX for defendant. Richard L. Renck, Oderah C. Nwaeze, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew C. Gaudet, Duane Morris LLP, Atlanta, GA; John M. Baird, Duane Morris LLP, Washington, DC for Metaswitch third-party defendants.
    Case Number: D69149

    The exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign third-party defendant comported with due process, so the court denied a motion to dismiss claims against that party.

  • TQ Delta, LLC v. 2Wire, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-30
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Electronics
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter J. McAndrews, Thomas J. Wimbiscus, James P. Murphy, Paul W. McAndrews, Rajendra A. Chiplunkar, Ashley M. Ratycz, McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd., Chicago, IL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brett Schuman, Rachel M. Walsh, Goodwin Procter LLP, San Francisco, CA; Douglas J. Kline, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA; Andrew S. Ong, Goodwin Procter LLP, Redwood City, CA; Cindy Chang, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D69140

    The jury's verdict in this patent infringement matter was supported by sufficient evidence, so defendant was not entitled to judgment as a matter of law or a new trial.

  • In re THGH Liquidating LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-09-23
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Federal Government | Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General; David C. Weiss, United States attorney; Ellen W. Sleights, Assistant United States Attorney, Wilmington, DE; Ruth A. Harvey, Lloyd H. Randolph, Seth B. Shapiro, Andrew Warner, Commercial Litigation Branch, U.S. Department of Justice for appellant.
    for defendant: Derek C. Abbott, Curtis S. Miller, Daniel B. Butz, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69130

    The government's withholding of Medicare payments after debtors filed bankruptcy was a violation of the automatic stay.

  • B# on Demand LLC v. Spotify Tech. S.A.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-23
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; John S. Kyle, Kyle Harris LLP, San Diego, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jack B. Blumenfeld, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stefani E. Shanberg, Jennifer J. Schmidt, Madeleine E. Gully, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69126

    Patent claim was invalidated as abstract where it merely described computer functions performing routine operations to achieve an abstract goal without providing an actual functional mechanism that would constitute an inventive or improved process for performing those computer functions.

  • GOLO, LLC v. Goli Nutrition Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-16
    Practice Area: Trademarks
    Industry: Consumer Products | Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chad S. C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; John Gabrielides and Genevieve E. Charlton, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Chicago, IL; Caitlin R. Byczko, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Indianapolis, IN for plaintiff;
    for defendant: Brian A. Biggs, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tamar Y. Duvdevani and Kerry A. O’Neill, DLA Piper LLP, New York, NY; Safraz W. Ishmael, DLA Piper LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69119

    Motion for preliminary injunction in trademark infringement case denied where plaintiff's mark had failed to develop sufficient distinctiveness or market awareness such that there would be a likelihood of confusion caused by defendant's use of its mark.