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Del. Senate Vote Derails Bail Reform Efforts

Tom McParland | June 20, 2018

A bill to amend the Delaware Constitution and end the state's reliance on cash bail died in the Senate late Wednesday, bringing to a halt a yearslong reform effort that had brought together police, corrections officers and the judiciary.

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Carney Appeals Decision Scrapping Del. Courts' Party-Balance Requirement

Tom McParland | June 20, 2018

Gov. John Carney is appealing a federal district court ruling last year striking down a provision of the Delaware Constitution that requires party balance on key state courts.

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Effort to Revive Assault-Weapons Ban Fails in Delaware Senate

Tom McParland | June 19, 2018

A last-ditch effort to revive a bill to ban the sale of assault weapons in Delaware failed Tuesday in the state Senate, as two Democrats joined the chamber's Republican caucus in rejecting a maneuver to bring the legislation up for debate.

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Weber Gallagher Nearly Doubles in NY With Retail Defense Group

Lizzy McLellan | June 18, 2018

The six-lawyer group is joining from midsize firm Ropers Majeski Kohn Bentley.

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Citibank Agrees to Pay $100M to Delaware, Other States in AGs' Suit Over Alleged Interest-Rate Manipulation

Michael Riccardi | June 15, 2018

An investigation by Underwood and 41 other state attorneys general led to the allegation Citibank misled other financial institutions about their status with an internationally used interest rate called LIBOR.

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Legislative Clock Threatens to Derail Delaware Bail Reform Efforts

Tom McParland | June 15, 2018

Lawmakers in Dover are considering a legislative package to amend the Delaware Constitution and end the state's reliance on cash bail, as a looming end-of-session deadline threatens to delay the reforms.

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PTAB Chief Accusing Former Employer of Sexual Orientation, Disability Bias

Scott Graham | June 13, 2018

Chief Judge David Ruschke alleges he was laid off from Medtronic's in-house department for pretextual reasons in 2015.

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Magistrate Judge Mulls Stay of Ruling to Toss Party-Balance Requirement for Del. Courts

Tom McParland | June 13, 2018

A magistrate judge is considering whether to stay a ruling to strike down a provision of the Delaware Constitution requiring party balance on key state courts until a federal appeals court can decide the issue.

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Del. Justices Uphold $70M in Damages for Failing to Market Chemo Drug

Tom McParland | June 12, 2018

The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday upheld a $71 million award against a Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company that failed to live up to its obligation to market a drug used to treat exposure to certain types of chemotherapy.

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Bill to Ban Assault Weapons Fails Without Senate Vote

Tom McParland | June 08, 2018

A legislative proposal to ban assault weapons in Delaware failed this week in the state Senate, a blow to Gov. John Carney and Democrats who had pushed the reforms in the wake of a school shooting that killed 17 people in Florida earlier this year.

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Holland Becomes First American Judge to Join English Chambers

Tom McParland | June 07, 2018

Retired Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland this week was elected "door tenant" at London's 3 Hare Court, becoming the first former American jurist to affiliate with a leading English set of chambers.

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ACLU Says Carney Administration Action Would Erode Anti-Bias Protection for Transgender Youth

Tom McParland | June 05, 2018

The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware is opposing a new proposed anti-discrimination regulation after the Carney administration backed off an earlier rule that would have allowed students to change their gender identity in schools without parental consent.

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Undercover Cop's Facebook Monitoring Not a Constitutional Violation, Del. Justices Say

Tom McParland | May 30, 2018

The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that an undercover detective's two-year monitoring of a suspect using a fake Facebook profile did not violate Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches and seizures.

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Fox Rothschild Doubles in Chicago, Grows in Delaware With Shaw Fishman Tie-Up

Dan Packel | May 30, 2018

Three years after arriving in the Windy City, Fox Rothschild wanted a bigger presence to help it succeed in the Chicago legal market.

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Attorney Gets 8 Years in Jail for Role in Payday Lending Scheme

Max Mitchell | May 29, 2018

A Delaware lawyer has received a lengthy prison sentence for his role in a payday lending scheme that involved lying about his client's connections with Native American tribes in order to dupe customers into paying interest rates far above the legal limit.

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Del. Judge Denies Interest in Asbestos Coverage Dispute

Tom McParland | May 24, 2018

A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected what he called a "peculiar" motion by an industrial pump manufacturer seeking prejudgment interest against excess insurers in a dispute over millions of dollars in asbestos-injury coverage, observing that no court had ever granted such a request without first finding damages.

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CBS, in New Complaint Against Redstone, Says It Moved to Preserve Discretion of Independent Directors

Tom McParland | May 23, 2018

CBS on Wednesday defended a board vote that sharply reduced the voting power of Shari Redstone, its controlling stockholder, filing an amended complaint that her bid to block the move was "inequitable and invalid" and arguing that it acted to preserve the discretion of independent directors.

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Icahn Sues to Stop AmTrust's $2.7B Go-Private Deal

Tom McParland | May 22, 2018

Activist investor Carl Icahn on Monday sued AmTrust Financial Services Inc. in the Delaware Court of Chancery, accusing the New York-based workers' compensation insurer of undervaluing the company in a $2.7 billion go-private bid in order to benefit its controlling family.

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GlaxoSmithKline Seeks to Reinstate $235M Infringement Verdict Against Teva Over Hypertension Drug

Tom McParland | May 15, 2018

GlaxoSmithKline is appealing a Delaware federal district judge's ruling that wiped out a $235 million verdict against Teva Pharmaceuticals for allegedly infringing a patent for the hypertension drug Coreg.

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Insurers Cannot Escape Verizon Judgment, Superior Court Rules

Tom McParland | May 09, 2018

A Delaware judge has ruled that Verizon Communications Inc. is owed $48 million from insurers from having defended a shareholder suit seeking $14 billion over the telecommunication giant's spinoff of its print and electronic directories business in 2006.

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Judge Approves Weinstein Co. Bankruptcy Sale to Texas-Based Investors

Tom McParland | May 08, 2018

A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved the $310 million sale of The Weinstein Co.'s television and film assets to Dallas-based Lantern Capital Partners.

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Judge: National Union Fire Insurance Liable for Up to $10M in Hotel Chain's Legal Costs

Greg Land | May 04, 2018

Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis said that even if some of the claims in the underlying lawsuit were outside the scope of WoodSpring Hotels' policy with National Union Fire Insurance, the insurer still had a duty to defend the claims.

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Ex-Wilmington Trust Executives Found Guilty of Fraud, Conspiracy

Tom McParland | May 03, 2018

A federal jury on Thursday found four former Wilmington Trust executives guilty of orchestrating a scheme to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in bad loans from regulators and investors.

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Dallas-Based Investors Emerge as Weinstein Co. Buyers

Tom McParland | May 02, 2018

Lantern Capital Partners is on the verge of acquiring The Weinstein Co. in a bankruptcy sale, after it was revealed that no bidders had topped the private equity firm’s $310 million offer to buy the embattled studio’s film library and television business.

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Latham Poaches IP Litigator Tara Elliott From Wilmer

Scott Graham | May 01, 2018

She brings experience and connections from the busy District of Delaware and the Federal Circuit.

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Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Challenge to DuPont Spinoff's Buyouts

Tom McParland | May 01, 2018

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the dismissal of a class action lawsuit from former employees of The Chemours Co. who said they were duped into taking a less generous buyout deal as the chemical firm downsized after its spinoff from DuPont.

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Microsoft Moves for Dismissal in Suit Over Siri Digital Assistant Patents

Tom McParland | April 27, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is asking a Delaware federal judge to dismiss an infringement suit targeting the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant's Cortana digital assistant products, seizing on an earlier ruling that invalidated three patents at the heart of the case.

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Del. Supreme Court Upholds Discount in Appraisal Lawsuit Stemming From Telecom Deal

Tom McParland | April 24, 2018

The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Delaware Court of Chancery ruling that found Sprint's $3.6 billion acquisition of telecommunications firm Clearwire in 2013 had valued Clearwire at more than twice what it was actually worth.

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Oscar-Winning Documentarian Denied Video From Theranos Depositions in Del.

Tom McParland | April 23, 2018

A Delaware Court of Chancery vice chancellor on Monday denied Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney access to discovery materials from two investor lawsuits filed against Theranos and its directors, as he prepares a feature-length documentary about the embattled blood-testing company.

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Legal Aid Groups Tout Study Showing Economic Benefits to State

Tom McParland | April 20, 2018

Legal aid groups are touting a new study that shows a more than 700 percent return on investment for the three nonprofit agencies that provide legal services to Delaware's poor, as leaders seek to restore state funding that was slashed from last year's budget.

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Navient Seeks Dismissal of Securities Suit Over Student Loan Reporting

Tom McParland | April 18, 2018

Navient Corp. is challenging assertions in a securities class action that top executives at the Wilmington-based Sallie Mae spin-off knew the firm was underreporting to investors the number of delinquent accounts in its student loan portfolio.

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Google Accused of Infringing Motion, Orientation Patents With Pixel Phones

Tom McParland | April 17, 2018

A Taiwanese technology company on Monday accused Google Inc. in Delaware federal court of infringing two motion-sensing patents with its line of Pixel cellphones.

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Ice Cube's Basketball League Target of Former Commissioner's Books-and-Records Suit

Tom McParland | April 11, 2018

The former commissioner of rapper Ice Cube's three-on-three basketball league is seeking access to corporate records in connection to claims its co-founders made him a scapegoat for fraud and mismanagement within the organization.

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Movie Theater Chain Investors Seek Appraisal in $3.6B Merger

Tom McParland | April 11, 2018

Former investors in the movie theater chain Regal Entertainment Group on Tuesday filed a petition in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking appraisal of their shares in connection with the movie theater chain's $3.6 billion merger with U.K.-based Cineworld Group.

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Facebook, Cambridge Analytica Hit With Delaware Class Action

Tom McParland | April 10, 2018

The latest federal class action to hit Facebook Inc. on Tuesday accused the social media giant of violating privacy laws in allowing Cambridge Analytica to access personal information of 87 million users.

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Grant & Eisenhofer Fee Spat Puts Spotlight on Harassment Claim

Scott Flaherty | April 10, 2018

A sexual harassment claim in a high-stakes dispute over legal fees, pitting Grant & Eisenhofer against a former partner, has entangled firm co-founder Stuart Grant.

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Delaware Bankruptcy Judge Approves The Weinstein Co. Auction Plan

Tom McParland | April 09, 2018

A Delaware judge has approved The Weinstein Co.'s blueprint for the bidding procedures governing the troubled movie studio's fast-tracked bankruptcy sale.

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Lord & Taylor Hit With Lawsuit After Data Breach Affected More Than 5 Million Customers

Tom McParland | April 06, 2018

The plaintiff in a proposed class action on Thursday accused high-end retailer Lord & Taylor of negligence in failing to protect its customers' private information, just days after the Hudson's Bay Co. subsidiary announced that it had been the target of a massive data breach in its North American stores.

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Law Firm Softball Game Injury Not Work-Related, Judge Rules

Tom McParland | April 03, 2018

Morris James does not have to pay a paralegal's workers' compensation claims for an injury he suffered while rounding the bases during a softball game played by firm employees, a Delaware Superior Court judge has ruled.

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Del. Federal Judge Invalidates 3 Siri Digital Assistant Patents

Tom McParland | April 02, 2018

A Delaware federal judge has invalidated three patents at the center of a series of lawsuits accusing major companies of infringing upon the technology that underpins Siri, the digital assistant built into Apple products.

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Stark Wipes Out $235M Infringement Verdict Against Teva for Hypertension Drug

Tom McParland | March 29, 2018

A Delaware federal judge on Wednesday wiped out a $235 million verdict against Teva Pharmaceuticals for supposedly infringing a GlaxoSmithKline plc patent for the hypertension drug Coreg.

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Chancery Court Greenlights Tesla Investor Suit Over $2.6B SolarCity Deal

Tom McParland | March 29, 2018

The Delaware Court of Chancery on Wednesday allowed an investor lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors Inc. to proceed, finding there is reason to believe Musk controlled the Tesla board when the company paid $2.6 billion to acquire a debt-saddled firm that he helped to found.

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Ex-Workers' Claim for Post-Spinoff Severance Pay From Chemours Survives

Tom McParland | March 27, 2018

A Delaware Superior Court judge ruled Monday that former employees of The Chemours Co. may sue for severance payments they said they were denied after allegedly being duped into taking a less generous buyout deal as the chemical firm downsized following its spinoff from DuPont.

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Del. Introduces Assault Weapons Ban, Drawing on Md. Law That Survived Challenge

Tom McParland | March 26, 2018

Democrats in the Delaware General Assembly last week unveiled controversial legislation to ban the sale of assault-style weapons, after a similar measure in Maryland withstood a constitutional challenge from gun-rights advocates in 2017.

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Weinstein Accusers Face Difficult Road to Recovery in Bankruptcy

Tom McParland | March 23, 2018

The deal, however, did not set aside money to compensate Harvey Weinstein's accusers—a key aspect of earlier, and ultimately unsuccessful, negotiations between New York's attorney general and a group of interested buyers.

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Del. Judge Trims BlackBerry's Infringement Suit Against Nokia

Tom McParland | March 21, 2018

A Delaware federal judge has knocked out patent infringement claims against telecommunications giant Nokia Corp. over its alleged use of 11 patents underlying BlackBerry Ltd.'s 3G and 4G communications technology, finding no evidence that the parent company effectively controlled its subsidiaries.

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Another Snow Storm Forces Another Round of State, Federal Court Closures in Del.

Tom McParland | March 21, 2018

The fourth nor'easter of March has brought yet another round of closures to state and federal courts in Kent and New Castle counties on Wednesday, as heavy snow and strong winds were expected to pound the area throughout the day.

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Lawyers Spar Over Conspiracy Allegations as Wilmington Trust Trial Ends Week 1

Tom McParland | March 16, 2018

The long-awaited Wilmington Trust criminal trial is finally underway in a Delaware federal court, as federal prosecutors this week made their case that four of the bank's former top executives orchestrated a scheme to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in bad loans from regulators and investors.

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Wilmington Attorney Reprimanded for Sexual, Religious Remarks to State Prosecutors

Tom McParland | March 15, 2018

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday publicly reprimanded a prominent Wilmington defense attorney for a series of sexually explicit and religiously insensitive remarks he made to state prosecutors over the course of years.

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Report Urges Overhaul of Delaware's Sexual Harassment Policies

Tom McParland | March 14, 2018

A new report from the Delaware Department of Human Resources is calling for an overhaul to the state's sexual harassment policies after finding major gaps in existing training and prevention programs.

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