• Delaware Bd. of Nursing v. Francis

    Publication Date: 2018-10-17
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law | Regulation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla A.K. Jarosz, attorney for appellant
    for defendant: Daniel A. Griffith, attorney for appellees.

    Case Number: D68318

    State not obligated to prove that nurse's breach of professional standards also caused harm to a patient or the public to impose discipline for violations.

  • Morrison v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2018-07-25
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Retail
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher P. Quinn, Randall J. Baron and Christopher H. Lyons for plaintiff
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Ethan H. Townsend, Harrison S. Carpenter and David Clarke, Jr. for Berry defendants; Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri, Ryan P. Durkin, Adam L. Sisitsky, Lavinia M. Weizel, Robert I Bodian and Scott A. Rader for remaining defendants.

    Case Number: D68226

    The board provided misleading information to stockholders prior to a vote, so the business judgment rule did not apply.

  • Ramsey v. Georgia S. Univ. Advanced Dev. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Toxic Torts
    Industry: Education | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raeann Warner, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorney for appellant
    for defendant: Eileen M. Ford and Megan T. Mantzavinos, Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Goldman and Lisa C. McLaughlin, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sarah P. Kelly, Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP, Boston, MA, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D68208

    Asbestos manufacturers obligated to provide safe handling warnings and instructions to employers who purchased asbestos products, such that employers could pass those warnings and instructions onto their employees, and could have liability for failure to provide such warnings and instructions.

  • Aranda v. Philip Morris USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Agriculture
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ian Connor Bifferato, Richard S. Gebelein, and Thomas F. Driscoll, The Bifferato Firm, Wilmington, DE; Charles S. Siegel, Waters & Kraus, LLP, Dallas, TX; Stephen J. Phillips, Phillips & Paolicelli, New York, NY; the Thorton Law Firm, Boston, MA, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: P. Clarkson Collins, Jr. and David J. Soldo, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Patrick W. Dennis and Perlette Michele Jura, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Miguel A. Estrada and Amir C. Tayrani, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC; Donald E. Reid, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew S. Hellman, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC; Elizabeth A. Coleman and Casey T. Grabenstein, Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D68094

    Availability of alternative forum not a condition of dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds, as analysis focused solely on defendants hardship in litigating in Delaware.

  • Pavik v. George & Lynch, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chase T. Brockstedt, Stephen A. Spence, Vincent A. Bifferato, Jr. and Roger D. Landon for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Louis J. Rizzo, Jr. for defendants.

    Case Number: D68099

    Whether a contractor was negligent in failing to post temporary warning signs at a road construction site was a question for the finder of fact, and summary judgment was not proper.

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  • Elenza, Inc. v. Alcon Labs. Holding Corp.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Intellectual Property
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Simeone, Charles T. Kimmett, Walter E. Anderson, and John R. Grimm, Harris, Wilshire & Grannis LLP, Washington, DC; Andrew D. Cordo and F. Troupe Mickler IV, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellant
    for defendant: Heidi K. Hubbard, Daniel P. Shanahan, David Randall J. Riskin, Tamara A. Rubb, and Michelle L. Hood, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC; Michael P. Kelly, Daniel M. Silver, and Benjamin P. Smyth, McCarter & English LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D68096

    Misappropriation of trade secrets claim properly denied where plaintiff failed to cite specific uses of its alleged trade secrets in any claimed misappropriation by defendant.

  • Marquinez v. The Dow Chem. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-28
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara H. Stratton, Jonathan S. Massey and Scott M. Hendler for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Donald E. Reid, Michael L. Brem, James W. Semple, Boaz S. Morag, Timothy Jay Houseal, D. Ferguson McNeil, Lisa C. McLaughlin, Adam V. Orlacchio and Kelly E. Farnan for defendants.

    Case Number: D68090

    In its answer to a certified question in this class action matter, the Delaware Supreme Court concluded that a conditional dismissal did not stop class action tolling.

  • California State Teachers Ret. Sys. v. Alvarez

    Publication Date: 2018-02-07
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities | Corporate Governance
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stuart M. Grant, Michael J. Barry, and Nathan A. Cook; Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christine S. Azar, Ryan T. Keating, and Ned Weinberger, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel Girard, Amanda Steiner, Dena Sharp, Adam Polk, and Jordan Elias, Girard Gibbs LLP, San Francisco, CA; Thomas A. Dubbs, Louis Gottlieb, and Jeffrey A. Dubbin, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; Frederic S. Fox, Hae Sung Nam, Donald R. Hall, and Jeffrey P. Campisi, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, New York, NY, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: Donald. J. Wolfe, Steven C. Norman, and Tyler J. Leavengood, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Theodore J. Boutrous and Alexander K. Mircheff, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Mark A. Perry, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D68031

    Another jurisdiction's dismissal of derivative action for lack of demand futility had preclusive effect under federal law upon competing group of stockholders derivative litigation.

  • In re Investors Bancorp, Inc. Stockholders Litig.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-24
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steve J. Purcell, Purcell Julie & Lefkowitz LLP, New York, NY; David A. Jenkins, Neal C. Belgam, and Clarissa R. Chenoweth, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellants
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar and Zi-Xiang Shen, Morris, Nichols, Arsh & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellees.

    Case Number: D68016

    Chancery court erroneously dismissed plaintiffs breach of fiduciary claim arising from boards self-award of equity incentives, where incentive plan authorized by disinterested majority stockholder vote granted board discretion to fashion specific awards that were not ratified by the stockholders.

  • United Access Tech., LLC v. AT&T Corp., DEFAX Case No. D67861 (Del. Aug. 22, 2017), Stark, J. (12 pages).

    Publication Date: 2017-09-20
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    Case Number: D67861

    Defendants were entitled to summary judgment in this patent infringement matter where the embodiments of the accused systems did not literally meet the limitation as required by the court's claim co