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Publication Date: 2024-04-15
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, J. Clayton Athey, Corinne Elise Amato, Kevin H. Davenport, Stacey A. Greenspan, Jason W. Rigby, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lee D. Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, J. Daniel Albert, Maria T. Starling, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA; Robert D. Klausner, Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson, Plantation, FL for appellants.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, John P. DiTomo, Elizabeth A. Mullin, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Theodore N. Mirvis, Jonathan M. Moses, Ryan A. McLeod, Alexandra P. Sadinsky, Canem Ozyildirim, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew W. Murphy, Sandy Xu, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Maeve O’Connor, Susan R. Gittes, Amy C. Zimmerman, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY; David E. Ross, Adam D. Gold, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua G. Hamilton, Meryn C.N. Grant, Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Blair Connelly, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Michele D. Johnson, Latham & Watkins LLP, Costa Mesa, CA for appellees.
Case Number: 368, 2022
Chancery court erroneously applied business judgment rule to review transaction where controlling stockholder stood on both sides and received a non-ratable benefit where not all members of the company's separation committee were independent from the controller.
Publication Date: 2024-04-08
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; John Vielandi, Labtaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY; Douglas E. Julie, W. Scott Holleman, Garam Choe, Julie & Holleman LLP, New York, NY; Brian J. Robbins, Stephen J. Oddo, Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA for appellants.
for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, Eric A. Veres, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; John A. Neuwirth, Stefania D. Venezia, Amanda K. Pooler, Elizabeth M. Sytsma, Tanner S. Stanley, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for appellees.
Case Number: 241, 2023
Chancery court erred in reviewing squeeze-out merger under business judgment review where proxy statement failed to disclose potential conflicts of interest of the special committee's financial and legal advisors.
Publication Date: 2024-04-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
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.
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.
Publication Date: 2024-02-26
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LeGrow
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE, Dean A. Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
for defendant: David C. McBride, M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 438, 2022
Official misconduct conviction reversed where trial court delayed in recognizing legal insufficiency of procurement law violation charge, thereby allowing jury to hear evidence on the procurement charge that could have spilled over into the jury's consideration of the official misconduct charge.
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Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Education Law
Industry: Education | Non-Profit | State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Max B. Walton, Lisa R. Hatfield, Erica K. Sefton, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE; Wilson B. Davis, New Castle County Law Department, New Castle, DE; Krista M. Reale, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE; Craig T. Eliassen, Gary E. Junge, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for appellants.
for defendant: Richard H. Morse, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, DE; Dwayne Bensing, ACLU Foundation of Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, DE; Saul P. Morgenstern, Peta Gordon, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for appellees.
Case Number: 138, 2023
Chancery court erred in awarding fee shifting in public interest litigation where the case effectively obtained a benefit no greater than simply compelling the government to properly perform its duties.
Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry:
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Griffiths
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Regina S.E. Murphy, Amy E. Tryon, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Dana L. Reynolds, Law Offices of Dana Reynolds, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 174, 2023
Trial court erred in involuntarily terminating parental rights where there was insufficient evidence of parent's continuous intention to abandon custody over child, especially where parent expressed desire to reunite and remedied the conditions that led to child's guardianship.
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.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
Industry:
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LeGrow
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elliot M. Margules, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Andrew J. Vella, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 435, 2022
Cell phone data warrant was an unlawful general warrant where it lacked any temporal limitation and permitted searches of applications unconnected to the facts supporting probable cause.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark Lebovitch, Edward G. Timlin, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
for defendant: William B. Chandler III, Brad D. Sorrels, Amy L. Simmerman, Daniyal M. Iqbal, Nora M. Crawford, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Mark R. Yohalem, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Los Angeles, CA; William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 2022-1007
Ability to sue corporate officers for fiduciary violations was not a "power, preference, or special right" of a class of stock and thus a proposed amendment to add an officer exculpation clause did not require a separate class vote under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
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