• Outbox Sys., Inc. v. Trimble Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel, Wilmington, DE; Gerry Silver, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven T. Margolin, Samuel L. Moultrie, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69944

    Account stated claim dismissed where duplicative of a well-pleaded breach of contract claim and where plaintiff had failed to adequately plead the existence of a debt or account or defendant's express admission to an amount due under such account or debt.

  • SLF Holdings LLC v. Uniti Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Retail | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Greenaway
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: D69937

    Court affirmed district court's dismissal of claims under federal and state securities law finding that a failure to disclose the possibility that legal action could result as a part of an asset acquisition did not qualify as a material fact for the purposes of omission arguments.

  • NVIDIA Corp. v. City of Westland Police & Fire Ret. Sys.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Montgomery-Reeves
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory P. Williams, Brock E. Czeschin, Christian C.F. Roberts, Richards, Layton, & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John C. Dwyer, Patrick E. Gibbs, Claire A. McCormack, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA for appellant.
    for defendant: Seth D. Rigrodsky, Gina M. Serra, Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Frank R. Schirripa, Hillary Nappi, Hach Rose Schirripa & Cheverie LLP, New York, NY; Gregory Mark Nespole, Daniel Tepper, Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, New York, NY; Travis E. Downs III, Erik W. Luedeke, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Thomas J. McKenna, Gregory M. Egleston, Gainey McKenna & Egleston, New York, NY; Beth A. Keller, Monteverde & Associates PC, New York, NY for appellees.

    Case Number: D69906

    Stockholders in §220 action could not rely on their own hearsay evidence to prove proper purpose where they refused to identify potential witnesses to permit the company the opportunity to conduct depositions.

  • Enigwe v. Amazon.com Servs., LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-07-26
    Practice Area: Copyrights
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ifedoo Enigwe, Philadelphia, PA, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brandon Ryan Harper, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Craig E. Pinkus, Philip Zimmerly, Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Alan Richard Silverstein, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Nicholas D. Mozal, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69896

    Although plaintiff alleged plausible copyright infringement claim pursuant to his original agreement with his publisher, the applicability of a later settlement between plaintiff and publisher had to be resolved by an Indiana court pursuant to the settlement's forum selection clause.

  • Qlarant v. IP Commercialization Labs, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-07-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Consulting | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Johanna Peuscher-Funk, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John G. Harris, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Meredith Sharoky Paley, Spiro Harrison, Short Hills, NJ; Jason Charles Spiro, Spiro Harrison, Red Bank, NJ for defendant.

    Case Number: D69887

    Court lacked personal jurisdiction over purported shareholder of party to asset purchase agreement, where the purported shareholder had no contacts with Delaware and the court declined to enforce the forum selection clause in the APA as the shareholder was not a signatory to that contract.

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  • ShotSpotter Inc. v. VICE Media, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-07-12
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rennie
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP; Thomas A. Clare, Megan L. Meier, Amy M. Roller, Clare Locke LLP for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Thomas E. Hanson, Jr., Barnes & Thornburg LLP; Rachel Strom, Jeremy Chase, Nimra H. Azmi, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP for defendant.

    Case Number: D69885

    News article was not defamation per se where the facts communicated in the article supported the overall gist of the article, and plaintiff failed to plead facts showing the publisher's actual malice.

  • US Dominion, Inc. v. Fox Corp.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Rodney Smolla, Wilmington, DE; Thomas A. Clare, Megan L. Meier, Dustin A. Pusch, Daniel P. Watkins, Clare Locke LLP, Alexandria, VA; Justin A. Nelson, Brittany Fowler, Susman Godfrey LLP, Houston, TX; Stephen Shackelford, Jr., Elisha Barron, Susman Godfrey LLP, New York, NY; Davida Brook, Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Stephen E. Morrissey, Susman Godfrey LLP, Seattle, WA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Eric M. George, Katherine A. Petti, Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: D69873

    Parent corporation could be held directly liable for defamation per se by subsidiary news outlet where parent company executives were alleged to be intimately involved in the outlet's operations and to have not believed the veracity or validity of the defamatory news broadcasts and articles.

  • Buttonwood Tree Value Partners, L.P. v. R.L. Polk & Co, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David A. Dorey, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher M. Mason, Nixon Peabody LLP, New York, NY; Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: D69870

    Court certified class of stockholders challenging self-tender transaction for misleading corporate disclosures, where certification was appropriate for the purposes of establish breach of duty and nominal damages, although the question of rescission damages would be individual to each stockholder.

  • Pascal Metrics, Inc. v. Health Catalyst, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Health Care | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Max L. Tribble, Jr., Rocco F. Magni, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Houston, TX; Kalpana Srinivasan, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: F. Troupe Mickler IV, Ashby & Geddes, P.A, Wilmington, DE; Gregory M. Saylin, Stephen Sansom, Tyson C. Horrocks, Holland & Hart LLP, Salt Lake City, UT for defendant.

    Case Number: D69863

    Applicable Utah Uniform Trade Secrets Act preempted tortious interference with contractual relations claims where underlying factual allegations were identical to those of plaintiff's misappropriation claim.

  • Stream TV Networks, Inc. v. SeeCubic, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew S. Dupre, Brian R. Lemon, Steven P. Wood, Sarah E. Delia, Stephanie H. Dallaire, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Robert S. Saunders, Jenness E. Parker, Bonnie W. David, Lilianna Anh P. Townsend, Trevor T. Nielson, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eben P. Colby, Marley Ann Brumme, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Boston, MA for appellee.

    Case Number: D69864

    Board committee action approving omnibus agreement moving company's assets into a "NewCo" was invalid where company's charter required approval of one class of shareholders for "asset transfers."