• Boatright v. State Farm Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-11
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel H. Fredricks, Gary S. Nitsche, Nitsche & Fredericks, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jospeh J. Bellew, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N20C-11-022 CEB

    Court denied motion to compel production of insurance company file where plaintiffs failed to show a likelihood that the file contained discoverable information or prove that the apparent inadvertent commingling of documents between the file and an already-produced file waived any confidentiality in the first.

  • Hyde Park Venture Partners Fund III, L.P. v. Fairxchange, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-03-21
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, Daniel J. McBride, Anthony R. Sarna, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for petitioners.
    for defendant: Paul J. Lockwood, Jenness E. Parker, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie L. Brown, Aaron M. Nelson, Elizabeth A. DeFelice, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen J. Senderowitz, Dentons, Chicago, IL; Douglas W. Henkin, Dentons, New York, NY for respondents.

    Case Number: 2022-0344-JTL

    Court granted motion to compel on the grounds that defendant corporation could not invoke the attorney-client privilege as a means to withhold materials within a certain time frame spanning over two years. The court did however hold that the corporation could assert the privilege regarding communications that were related to books and records that the director had intentionally released, thus removing it from the circle of confidentiality.

  • In re Cte d'Azur Estate Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy D. Anderson, Fish & Richardson P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, K&L Gates, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dieter Walter Neupert, pro se defendant for defendants.

    Case Number: 2017-0290-JTL

    The court granted letters of request to procure discovery from non-party individuals located in Israel.

  • Maxus Liquidating Trust v. YPF S.A.., L.P.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Energy
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Goldblatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 18-50489 (CTG)

    The court denied plaintiff's motion to compel the production of documents protected under the attorney-client privilege doctrine.

  • State of Delaware v. Concrete Tech. Resurfacing & Design, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Clarke, Deputy Attorney General, Consumer Protection Unit, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John V. Work, Law Office of John V. Work, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N19C-05-323 FWW

    The court granted plaintiff's requests for sanctions based on a failure to produce discoverable materials and spoliation of discoverable information.

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  • Wei v. Zoox, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-15
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom | Transportation
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, David Hahn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, David A. Knotts, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Nashville, TN for petitioners.
    for defendant: David J. Teklits, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; William D. Savitt, Anitha Reddy, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY for respondent.

    Case Number: D69714

    The court held that appraisal petitioners should not be allowed to obtain full discovery in this appraisal proceeding because it was commenced for the purpose of conducting pre-suit investigation for evidence of breach of fiduciary duty.

  • US Dominion, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-09-29
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Electronics | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davies
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Rodney Smolla, Wilmington, DE; Justin A. Nelson, Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX; Stephen Shackleford, Jr., Elisha Barron, Susman Godfrey LLP, New York, NY; Davida Brook, Emily Cronin, Brittany Fowler, Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Stephen E. Morrissey, Susman Godfrey LLP, Seattle, WA; Thomas A. Clare, P.C; Megan L. Meier, Dustin A. Pusch, Daniel P. Watkins, Clare Locke LLP, Alexandria, VA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Howard Kleinhendler, New York, NY for nonparties Defending the Republic, Inc. and Sidney Powell.

    Case Number: D69553

    Nonparties were not entitled to reargument, because the court's order only involved issuance of a subpoena and nonparties failed to show that the court overlooked legal precedent or misapprehended the law or facts in a way that affected the outcome of the order.

  • In re Ex Parte Application of Eni S.p.A.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-07
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Energy
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Bartley Rath, Rebecca Lyn Butcher, Jennifer L. Cree, Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicolas Bourtin, Beth D. Newton, Michele C. Materni, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for applicant.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for respondents.

    Case Number: D69352

    Court granted ex parte application for discovery for use in foreign proceedings where arbitration established by international treaty qualified as a foreign proceeding and where parties seeking to quash subpoenas failed to show the discovery would be inadmissible in foreign proceedings or that those proceedings had already denied similar discovery demands.

  • Wood v. U.S. Bank Nat'l Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2021-02-17
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael W. Teichman, Elio Battista, Jr., Judy M. Jones, Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eric P. Haas, Gardner Haas PLLC, Dallas, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Paul D. Brown, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; William B. Kerr, Kerr, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69301

    The court granted plaintiffs' motion to compel production, and it denied defendants' motion for a retroac-tive extension of time in which to respond to plaintiffs' discovery requests.

  • RCS Creditor Trust v. Schorsch

    Publication Date: 2020-04-08
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Trainer, Jr. and Marie M. Degnan, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; John P. Coffey, Gregory A. Horowitz and Anna K. Ostrom, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Elizabeth A. Sloan and Brittany M. Giusini of Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael C. Miller, Evan Glassman, Michael G. Scavelli, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York, NY; Mark Murphy, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, DC for defendant Block. Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Allan J. Arffa, Gregory F. Laufer and Jeremy A. Benjamin, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY for remaining defendants.

    Case Number: D68939

    Communications between plaintiff's counsel and a third party were subject to the attorney-client privilege based on the com-mon interest doctrine. Motion to compel denied.