• Gerlofs v. Citizens Bank

    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Consumer Products | Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Simon, Kevin S. Mann, Cross & Simon, LLC, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Ronald N. Brown, III, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, Megan E. O’Connor, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas R. DeCesar, K&L Gates LLP, Harrisburg, PA for respondents.

    Case Number: N23C-09-178 MAA CCLD

    Plaintiff became solely responsible for escrow agent's legal fees and costs when she refused agent's request to interplead escrow funds and terminate its involvement in the dispute, where the parties' escrow agreement expressly contemplated the agent's non-involvement in disputes over escrow funds.

  • Katz v. Beebe Healthcare

    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bryson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-625-WCB

    Court imposed financial sanctions on plaintiff's former counsel due to counsel's failure to provide discovery despite repeated assurances of production.

  • City of Sarasota Firefighters' Pension Fund v. Inovalon Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: E-Commerce | Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Weinberger, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; John Vielandi, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY; Lee D. Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, J. Daniel Albert, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, Grant D. Goodhart, III, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for appellants.
    for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Craig K. Ferrere, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Blair Connelly, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Kristin N. Murphy, Ryan A. Walsh, Latham & Watkins LLP, Costa Mesa, CA for appellees.

    Case Number: 2022-0698

    Court reversed dismissal of action challenging corporate acquisition where proxy statement failed to disclose advisors' conflicts of interest and erroneously described the advisors' roles in the transaction.

  • Amazon.com, Svcs., LLC v. Rook

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristopher T. Starr, Marshall Dennehy, P.C., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean P. Gambogi, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, Newark, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: N23A-04-003 KMM

    Treatment falling outside Health Care Practice Guidelines could still be reasonable and necessary and thus compensable under workers' compensation, such that the Industrial Accident Board was not obligated to take judicial notice of the Guidelines where some of a claimant's treatment fell outside them.

  • Gordian Med., Inc. v. Vaughn

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew L. Cole, Stacy L. Newman, Jack M. Dougherty, Cole Schotz P.C., Wilmington, DE; Ryan J. Morley, John W. Hofstetter, Littler Mendelson, P.C., Cleveland, OH for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Daniel C. Herr, Law Office of Daniel C. Herr, LLC, Wilmington, DE; David E. Rothstein, Rothstein Law Firm, PA, Greenville, SC for defendant.

    Case Number: 22-319 (MN)

    Although court found most of former employee's restrictive covenants enforceable as reasonably tailored to protect employer's legitimate economic interests, it granted employee judgment where former employer failed to present evidence at trial proving that employee breached any enforceable covenant.

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  • United States v. Walmart Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Federal Government | Retail
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Slights
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dylan J. Steinberg, United States Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Adam E. Lyons, Amanda N. Liskamm, Joshua Fowkes, Kathleen B. Gilchrist, Katherine M. Ho, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kelly E. Farnan, Robert W. Whetzel, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Laura Jane Durfee, Jones Day, Columbus, OH; Yaakob M. Roth, Kristen A. Lejnieks, William G. Laxton, Jr., Jones Day, Washington, DC; Andrew J. Junker, Jason S. Varnado, Jones Day, Houston, TX; Karen P. Hewitt, Jones Day, San Diego, CA; David W. Ogden, Charles C. Speth, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: 20-1744-CFC

    Pharmacy operator did not commit unlawful violations of the Controlled Substances Act where reporting of suspicious drug orders was not yet required by the act and where the allegedly violated regulations promulgated under the CSA were inconsistent with the act's express prohibitions.

  • Umuhoza v. Pinnacle Rehab. Heath Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Noreika
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Placide Umuhoza, Smyrna, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Bebko Jauffert, Puja Upadhyay, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. for defendants.

    Case Number: 23-552 (MN)

    Court dismissed employment discrimination action for lack of sufficient allegations supporting an inference of national origin discrimination.

  • AstraZeneca Pharm. LP v. Becerra

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Federal Government | Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE; Catherine E. Stetson, Susan M. Cook, Marian Golden, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jacob Laksin, United States Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Brian D. Netter, Brian M. Boynton, Michelle R. Bennett, Alexander V. Sverdlov, Stephen M. Pezzi, Christine L. Coogle, Cassandra M. Snyder, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: 23-931-CFC

    Drug manufacturer lacked standing to challenge Drug Price Reduction Program and associated guidelines due to the lack of a concrete and imminent injury in fact from the program.

  • Graciano v. Abode Healthcare, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. Day, Day Law Group, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Michael J. Maiomone, Gabriella Mouriz, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0728-SG

    Chancery court lacked jurisdiction over complaint seeking specific performance where the relief sought by plaintiff was legal in nature and the parties' contract could not confer jurisdiction.

  • McDaniel-Wesche v. Sun Behavioral Health

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan B. O’Neill, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, P.A., Christiana, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas E. Bittner, Heckler & Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A-03-002 CAK

    Industrial Accident Board properly denied claim of permanent impairment based on credibility determination, as claimant failed to seek prompt diagnostic testing or treatment following a work incident and did not disclose an intervening motor vehicle accident to her medical providers and evaluators, and employer's medical expert credibly testified as to the lack of permanent impairment.