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Publication Date: 2023-09-25
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Hanson, Jr., William J. Burton, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lilit Asadourian, Alice Kyureghian, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Aaron D. Lindstrom, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for plaintiff below, appellee and cross-appellant.
for defendant: John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; David Newmann, Courtney Devon Taylor, Victoria A. Joseph, Brittany Armour, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant below, appellant and cross-appellee.
Case Number: 360, 2022
Ruling that appellee's alleged violation of the False Claims Act arose out of false certifications that the loans it endorsed were eligible for government insurance, not the professional services it provided to borrowers through mortgage banking, mortgage underwriting, and loan servicing; the court concluded that the FCA charges and eventual settlement did not fall within the professional services exclusion in appellant's management liability policy.
Publication Date: 2023-09-25
Practice Area: Patent Litigation
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Bryson
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 22-913-WCB MEMORANDUM OPINION
Court declined to dismiss patent infringement case on collateral estoppel grounds where present action was asserting other independent claims that contained elements not expressly recited in claims addressed in the parties' prior action.
Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin M. Coen, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jamie L. Wine, Steven N. Feldman, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY; Matthew W. Walch, Russell Mangas, Latham & Watkins LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Elizabeth A. Sloan, Brittany M. Giusini, Fred DeRitis, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul Lantieri III, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Stephen B. Brauerman, Justin C. Barrett, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2021-0210-PAF
Company president was liable for breaching his non-compete and fiduciary duties where the evidence supported finding that he diverted business opportunities to a competing company he founded.
Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, Eric A. Veres, Joseph A. Sparco, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul J. Loh, Jason H. Wilson, Eileen M. Ahern, Amelia L.B. Sargent, Peter Shimamoto, Ashley L. Kirk, Kenneth M. Trujillo-Jamison, Breeanna N. Brewer, Caitlin F. Lynch, Willenken LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Kevin R. Shannon, Christopher N. Kelly, Daniel M. Rusk, IV, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Fred A. Kelly, Jr., Joshua S. Barlow, Tiffany Jang, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mark Basanta, Aakruti G. Vakharia, Haug Partners LLP, New York, NY; Christopher Gosselin, Haug Partners LLP, Washington, D.C. for defendant.
Case Number: 2020-0953-SG
Plaintiff's damages methodology was found mostly reliable, as the court rejected defendant's assertion that plaintiff could have mitigated its damages since the evidence showed that defendant would not have cooperated with those mitigation efforts or the success of those efforts was speculative at best.
Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
Industry: Energy
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Judge Matey
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew A. Fitzgerald, McGuireWoods, Richmond, VA; Gregory J. Krock, McGuireWoods, Pittsburgh, PA; Elizabeth M. Thomas, McGuireWoods, Charlotte, NC for appellant.
for defendant: Richard L. Armezzani, Daniel T. Brier, John B. Dempsey, Nicholas F. Kravitz, Myers Brier & Kelly, Scranton, PA for appellee.
Case Number: 22-1280
Court remanded for district court to join other parties to a joint operating agreement since adjudicating the case would necessarily implicate those parties' contractual rights and obligations.
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Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Business Torts
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin M. Capuzzi, Kate Harmon, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew G. Fiorella, Nathan H. Boninger, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP, Cleveland, OH for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Joseph B. Cicero, Thomas A. Youngman, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey H. Zaiger, Judd Linden, Zaiger LLC, New York, NY; David E. Ross, S. Michael Sirkin, Thomas C. Mandracchia, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0378-LWW
Although unsecured creditor could not pierce the corporate veil as to the controller, it adequately pled fraudulent transfer and successor liability claims against an affiliate that acquired all of a fellow affiliate's assets, when the circumstances of the sale supported an inference that the transfer was designed to place assets out of creditors' reach.
Publication Date: 2023-09-18
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Consulting | Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael W. McDermott, Richard I. G. Jones, Jr., David B. Anthony, Zachary J. Schnapp, Harry W. Shenton, IV, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Eric A. Veres, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert N. Hochman, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, Margaret Hope Allen, Angela C. Zambrano, Yolanda Cornejo Garcia, Sidley Austin LLP, Dallas, TX; Robin Wechkin, Sidley Austin LLP, Issaquah, WA for appellee.
Case Number: 407, 2022
Court declined to disavow jurisprudence holding that parties to an LLC agreement could impose incurable voidness on purported transactions under the agreement since the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act gave broad contractual freedom in an operating agreement.
Publication Date: 2023-09-11
Practice Area: Bankruptcy
Industry: Consulting | Investments and Investment Advisory | Retail
Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Judge: Judge Stickles
Attorneys: For plaintiff:
for defendant:
Case Number: 20-12816(JKS)
The court denied motions to dismiss counts alleging breach of fiduciary duties, aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duties, recharacterization of debt to equity, and equitable subordination arising from defendants' control of debtor that led to its bankruptcy.
Publication Date: 2023-09-11
Practice Area: Bankruptcy
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Construction | Energy
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Denhey, Andrew R. Remming, Matthew 0. Talmo, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Dunn, Allison Wuertz, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
for defendant: Brian A. Sullivan, Werb & Sullivan, Wilmington, DE; Don Fogel, Fogel & McEvily, LLC, Houston, TX for appellee.
Case Number: 22-1371-CFC
Bankruptcy court correctly dismissed statutory disgorgement and turnover claims against assignee of unlicensed contractor who held invoices owed by debtor, where California's statutory provision authorizing recovery of sums paid to unlicensed contractor did not extent to other parties.
Publication Date: 2023-09-11
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Agriculture | Consulting | Consumer Products
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Jameson, Eric J. Juray, Jason W. Rigby, Robert B. Lackey, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Thomas H. Vidal, Shamar Toms-Anthony, Pryor Cashman LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Evan W. Bolla, Megan Dubatowka, Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2022-0098-MTZ
Reasoning that under the plain language of 8 Del. C. § 145 a director or officer may recover for fees incurred by a wholly owned entity, the court held that plaintiff was entitled to indemnification for breach of contract claims brought against an entity owned by him as well as for counterclaims brought by him and the entity.
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