• Martin v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-10-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin S. Gifford, IV, The Law Office of Benjamin S. Gifford IV, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian L. Arban, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 112, 2021

    The Delaware Supreme Court held that a postconviction petition will not be mooted by a defendant's completion of his sentence after the petition is filed if the defendant pleads that there are continuing collateral consequences arising from the conviction.

  • Nat'l Amusements, Inc. v. Endurance Am. Specialty Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Fischer, Jennifer Wasson, Jacqueline Rogers, Carla Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David B. Godwin, Covington & Burling LLP, San Francisco, CA; Neema Sahni, Covington & Burling LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Mitchell F. Dolin, Jad H. Khazen, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael Busenkell, Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown LLC, Wilmington, DE; Manuel Mungia, Jr., Matthew E. Pepping, and Chad W. Scheiber, Chasnoff Mungia Valkenaar Peppeing & Stribling LLP, San Antonio, TX; Carmella P. Keener, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden, Isabel C. Naviera Lopez, Hangley Aronchik Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA; Christopher B. Chuff, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kevin F. Kieffer, Ryan C. Tuley, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Irvine CA; Ciaran B. Way, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber,d Arthur Luk, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: N22C-06-018 AML CCLD

    Court denied insureds' motion to dismiss counterclaim asserting applicability of interrelated claims exclusion in D&O liability policy as the record was insufficient to conclusively determine that present underlying litigation was in no way related to prior litigation against insureds.

  • PVP Aston, LLC v. Fin. Structures Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-18
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Simon, Michael L. Vild, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael W. Teichman, Kashif I Chowdhry; Kyle F. Dukle, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey D. Brooks, Tanisha L. Massie, Morrison Cohen LLP, New York, NY defendants.

    Case Number: N21C-09-095 AML CCLD

    Court dismissed declaratory judgment claim where plaintiffs' arguments in support had already been rejected by courts in other states in actions involving the parties, thereby invoking the doctrine of collateral estoppel.

  • Scottoline v. Women First, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce L. Hudson, Joshua J. Inkell, Hudson & Castle Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Bradley J. Gowert, Thomas J. Marcoz, Jr., Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; David Batten, Batten Lee, Raleigh, NC; John D. Balaguer, Roopa Sabesan, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N19C-08-135 AML

    Court excluded medical expert's causation opinion for lack of supporting scientific authority and due to the expert's failure to rule out other common causes of plaintiff's injury.

  • PVP Aston, LLC v. U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2023-02-07
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Vild, Christopher P. Simon, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert A. Penza, Christina B. Vavala, Polsinelli PC, Wilmington, DE: Llynn K. White, Polsinelli PC, St. Louis, MO; John A. Sensing, Carson R. Bartlett, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Chad S.C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N22C-03-103 AML CCLD

    Plaintiffs were not entitled to declaratory judgment on their breach of contract and quiet title claims where their proffered interpretation of their contracts with their lenders and mortgage insurers were unreasonable as it would effectively absolve plaintiffs from their obligation to make their final balloon loan payment.

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  • Parma VTA LLC v. Parma GE 7400, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-01-03
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine A. Gaul, Michael J. Vail, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Mark I. Walach, Walter Haverfield, Cleveland, OH for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John A. Sensing, Brandon R. Harper, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric H. Zagrans, Zagrans Law Firm LLC, Columbus, OH for defendant.

    Case Number: N22C-03-092 AML CCLD

    Breach of contract claim survived dismissal where tenancy-in-common agreement required parties to share expenses for property, and thus tenant breached this obligation by failing to contribute toward payment of mortgage used to refinance property upon acquisition.

  • PVP Aston, LLC v. Fin. Structures Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Simon, Michael L. Vild, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Michael W. Teichman, Kashif I. Chowdhry, Kyle F. Dunkle, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey D. Brooks, Tanisha L. Massie, Morrison Cohen LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69867

    Court declined to apply jury waivers in related loan documents to obligors' claims against their mortgage insurer, where the waiver clauses did not unambiguously include claims arising from outside the loan transaction within their scope.

  • Greentech Consultancy Co., WLL v. Hilco IP Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-05-24
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, William E. Green, Jr., Halloran Farkas & Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DEs for plaintiff
    for defendant: Richard L. Renck, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69825

    Implied contractual obligation in preliminary agreement to negotiate a final agreement in good faith was an enforceable contractual obligation, but summary judgment was inappropriate where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendant acted in bad faith during the negotiations.

  • The Am. Bottling Co. v. BA Sports Nutrition, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Food and Beverage
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, Elizabeth M. Taylor, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE, Robert C. Walters, Russell H. Falconer, Sophie C. Rohnke, Andrew H. Bean, Megan Z. Hulce, Emily A. Jorgens, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Daniel J. McBride, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE, David H. Bernstein, Jyotin Hamid, Jared I. Kagan, Matthew J. Petrozziello, Danielle Vildostegui, Sebastian Dutz, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY; Rolin P. Bissell, James M. Yoch, Jr., Michael A Laukaitis II, Kevin P. Rickert, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE, Michael C. Holmes, Craig E. Zieminski, Andrew E. Jackson, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX, for defendants.

    Case Number: D69665

    The court ruled on three motions for summary judgment.

  • Stillwater Mining Co. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Energy | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Peter C. McGivney, Cheneise V. Wright, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter Gillon, Tamara Bruno, Brendan Hogan, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, William C. Perdue, Andrew T. Tutt, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC; John C. Phillips, Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Jung H. Park, John J. Iacobucci, Jr., Roperrs Majeski, PC, New York, NY; Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Angelo G. Savino, Cozen O’Connor, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69668

    Delaware had most significant relationship to action to determine coverage available under D&O policy issued to a Delaware corporation, and under Delaware law the corporation was not entitled to insurance coverage under the policy for an appraisal action.