• McDougal v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole M. Walker, Office of Defense Services, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew R. Fletcher, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 170, 2023

    Police lacked articulable facts to suspect individual on sidewalk of loitering and thus unlawfully detained the individual for a pat down search.

  • Zurich Am. Ins. Co. v. Sygenta Crop Prot., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Balaguer, Lindsey E. Imbrogno, Balaguer Milewski & Imbrogno, Wilmington, DE; Michael M. Marick, Timothy H. Wright, Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: Stephen E. Jenkins, Catherine A. Gaul, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Dorthea W. Regal, Joshua L. Blosveren, Miriam J. Manber, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for appellee.

    Case Number: 135, 2023

    Communications threating litigation at some indefinite time in the future without identifying claimants or requesting monetary relief were insufficient to constitute a "claim for damages" that would trigger or bar liability insurance coverage.

  • Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. v. Ainslie

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Barr Flinn, Paul J. Loughman, Alberto E. Chávez, Skyler A. C. Speed, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David A. Paul, Virginia J. Cardenas, Sid Nadkarni, Cantor Fitzgerald, New York, NY; Benjamin R. Nagin, Eric G. Hoffman, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Tacy F. Flint, Frank J. Favia, Jr., Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL for appellant.
    for defendant: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch & Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kyle W. Roche, Kyle Roche P.A., New York, NY; Velvel Freedman, Alex Potter, Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: 162, 2023

    A "forfeiture-for-competition" provision in a partnership agreement did not qualify as a restraint on trade, and thus partners who had negotiated and benefitted from such a term would be held to the terms of their agreement due to the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act's express favor for the enforceability of contracts.

  • Lebanon County Employees' Ret. Fund v. Collis

    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.

  • Terrell v. Kiromic Biopharma, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Consulting | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott James Leonhardt, Jason A. Gibson, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; Alexander Klein, Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & Loturco, LLP, Garden City, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurence V. Cronin, Kelly A. Green, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Friedman, Joshua I. Schlenger, Katherine Anne Boy Skipsey, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP, New York, NY for appellee.

    Case Number: 299, 2022

    Chancery court erred in accepting corporate board committee's interpretation of stock option agreement provision without further review or offering the parties the opportunity to provide supplemental briefing or oral argument. Reversed and remanded.

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  • Wilmington Trust Nat'l Ass'n v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin G. Abrams, John M. Seaman, Samuel D. Cordle, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Harry S. Davis, Robert E. Griffin, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. Kelleher, Brian D. Burack, Cozen O’Connor, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.

    Case Number: N18C-07-289

    Courts had to conduct fault-based analysis evaluating the parties' knowledge or inquiry notice of the illegality of life insurance policies ultimately deemed to be stranger originated life insurance policies when determining whether to order disgorgement of paid premiums or allow the insurer to retain the premiums.

  • Albence v. Higgin

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander S. Mackler, Allison J. McCowan, Zi-Xiang Shen, Victoria R. Sweeney, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: M. Jane Brady, Brady Legal Group LLC, Lewes, DE; Charlotte Davis, Noel H. Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Indianapolis, IA; Julianne E. Murray, Law Office of Murray, Phillips & Gay, Georgetown, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 342, 2022

    Same-day voter registration and vote-by-mail statutes violated the Delaware constitution, which specifically enumerated the categories of citizens entitled to cast votes by absentee ballot and also effectively undercut enumerated rights to challenge voter registration records.

  • Cousins v. Goodier

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Education | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen J. Neuberger, Thomas S. Neuberger, The Neuberger Firm, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodney A. Smolla, Wilmington, DE; Douglas D. Herrmann, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Saunders LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69939

    Defamation | Tortious Interference with Contract | Loss of Employment | First Amendment Defense

  • Jack Lingo Asset Mgmt., LLC v. The Bd. of Adjustment of the City of Rehoboth Beach

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Hutt, R. Eric Hacker, Michelle G. Bounds, Morris James LLP, Georgetown, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Frederick A. Townsend, III, D. Barrett Edwards, IV, Hudson, Jones, Jaywork & Fisher LLC for appellee.

    Case Number: D69907

    City erred in denying application to install unroofed exit walkway on property due to exceeding floor area/parking requirements, where local zoning code did not unambiguously include such walkways within the definition of space counting towards gross floor area

  • In re GGP, Inc. Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Ronald A. Brown, Jr., Stephen D. Dargitz, J. Clayton Athey, Marcus E. Montejo, Samuel L. Closic, Prickett Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Carl L. Stine, Adam J. Blander, Antoinette Adesanya, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY; Brian D. Long, Long Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Frank P. DiPrima, Law Office of Frank DiPrima, P.A., Morristown, NJ for appellants.
    for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, John M. Seaman, Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; John A. Neuwirth, Evert J. Christensen, Jr., Seth Goodchild, Matthew S. Connors, Nicole E. Prunetti, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Berton W. Ashman, Jr., and Jaclyn C. Levy, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter E. Kazanoff, Michael J. Garvey, Sara A. Ricciardi, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY; Raymond J. Dicamillo, Susan M. Hannigan, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; Brian T. Frawley, Y. Carson Zhou, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY; David J. Teklits, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: D69905

    Dividing merger transaction into substantial pre-closing dividend and meager "per share merger consideration" did not frustrate stockholders' appraisal rights since dividend legally constituted merger consideration.