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  • West v. Access Control Related Enter., LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-06-26
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Geoffrey G. Grivner, Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, PC; Ekwan E. Rhow, Sharon Mayer, and Patricia H. Jun, Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks, Lincenberg & Rhow, P.C. for plaintiff
    for defendant: Justin K. Victor, Michael L. Banks, and Vishal H. Shah, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP for defendants.
    Case Number: D68608

    Implied covenant and conversion claims dismissed as duplicative of breach of contract claims where contract expressly defined expectations of the parties and where conversion of contractually-promised assets had to be brought as a contractual claim.

  • Rowland v. American Biltrite, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-08
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Medinilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ipek K. Medford, Bartholomew J. Dalton, Andrew C. Dalton and Michael C. Dalton, Dalton & Assoc., P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam Balick and Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Beth E. Valocchi, Joseph S. Naylor and Bryan P. Smith, Swartz Campbell, LLC , Wilmington, DE for moving defendant.
    Case Number: D68556

    Plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that a product provided by defendant contained asbestos.

  • Lincoln Benefit Life Co. v. Wilmington Trust, N.A.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-03
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Schoell, Jason P. Gosselin, Katherine L. Villanueva and Christopher F. Petrillo, Drinker Bid-dle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68514

    The court granted a motion to stay a Delaware declaratory judgment proceeding in favor of a pending lawsuit in another state based on the contemporaneous filing of the actions, as well as principles of comity and judicial efficiency.

  • State of Delaware v. Pierce

    Publication Date: 2019-03-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Expert Witnesses
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Annemarie H. Puit, Matthew B. Frawley and Jenna R. Milecki, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    for defendant: Eugene J. Maurer, Jr. and Elise K. Wolpert, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68499

    Geolocation information from a defendant's phone was sufficiently reliable, and expert testimony would assist the jury in un-derstanding the evidence.

  • State of Delaware, Dep't of Natural Res. & Envtl. Control v. McGinnis Auto & Mobile Home Salvage, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-03-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph K. Durstein, III, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, DE for the state.
    for defendant: John W. Paradee, Daniel F. McAllister and Stephen A. Spence, Baird, Mandalas, Brockstedt, LLC, Do-ver, DE for McGinnis Auto & Mobile Home Salvage, Inc.
    Case Number: D68452

    An agency exceeded its statutory authority when it issued a cease and desist order which purported to man-date corrective action.

  • State of Delaware v. Purdue Pharma L.P.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals | Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan P. Newell, Shaun Michael Kelly and Kyle Evans Gay of Connolly Gallagher, LLP; Richard W. Fields of Fields PLLC; Scott W. Gilbert, Richard Shore, Mark A. Packman, Jenna A. Hudson, Michael B. Rush, Monique T. Abrishami and Richard J. Leveridge, Gilbert LLP, Washington, DC; Kathleen Jen-nings, attorney general, and Michael Vild and Michelle Whalen, Delaware Dep't of Justice for the state.
    for defendant: Brian D. Tome and Kelly E. Rowe, Reilly, McDevitt & Henrich, PC, Wilmington, DE; Mark S. Cheffo, Hay-den A. Coleman, Debra D. O'Gorman and Judy L. Leone, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant Purdue Pharma. Michael P. Kelly, Steven P. Wood, Daniel J. Brown and Hayley J. Reese, McCarter & English, Wilmington, DE; John A. Freedman and Sean O. Morris, Arnold & Porter Kay Scholer LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant Endo Pharmaceuticals. Kevin B. Collins, Katherine B. Shaffer and Neil K. Roman, Covington & Burling, New York, NY; A. Thompson Bayliss, Michael A. Barlow, Sarah E. Delia, David A. Seal and Daniel J. McBride, Abrams & Bayliss, Wilmington, DE for defendant McKesson Corp. David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser LLP, Wilmington, DE, Steven Pyser, Ashley W. Hardin and Joshua D. Tully, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC for defendant Cardinal Health. Jennifer C. Wasson, Jesse L. Noa and Carla M. Jones, Potter, Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Louis W. Schack, Shan-non E. McClure and Neil A. Hlawatsch of Reed Smith LLP for defendant AmerisourceBergen. Jami B. Nimeroff, Brown, Garry, Nimeroff, Wilmington, DE; James W. Matthews, Katy E. Koski, Jaclyn V. Piltch and Redi Kasollja, Foley & Lardner, Boston, MA for defendant Anda Pharmaceuticals. Thomas E. Han-son and Oni N. Harton, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE and Indianapolis, IN for defendant H.D. Smith LLC. Daniel B. Rath, Rebecca L. Butcher and Jennifer L. Cree, Landis, Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric R. Delinsky, Alexandra W. Miller and R. Miles Clark, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Washington, DC for defendant CVS Health Corp. Beth Moskow-Schnoll, William Burton and Elizabeth A. Sloan, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kaspar J. Stoffelmayr, Katherine M. Swift and Alex J. Har-ris, Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, IL and Denver, CO for defendant Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
    Case Number: D68469

    The state adequately alleged claims against manufacturers and distributors of opioids, but the court dismissed public nuisance, civil conspiracy and unjust enrichment claims.

  • Knecht v. Ford Motor Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-13
    Practice Area: Occupational Safety and Health
    Industry: Automotive | Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam Balick, Michael Collins Smith and Patrick J. Smith, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Bar-tholomew J. Dalton, Ipek K. Medford, Andrew C. Dalton and Michael C. Dalton, Dalton & Assoc., Wil-mington, DE; Danny R. Kraft, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Christian J. Singewald and Rochelle L. Gumaspac, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE for de-fendant.
    Case Number: D68457

    Defendant in this asbestos exposure case was not entitled to judgment as a matter of law or a new trial.

  • Ritchie Multi-Strategy Global, LLC v. Huizenga Managers Fund, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-01-30
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Sensing and Ryan C. Cicoski for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi and Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates, LLP; Christopher J. Barber, Williams Montgom-ery & John Ltd. for defendant.
    Case Number: D68443

    A stay of this Delaware proceeding was appropriate where an action in another state involving the same parties and operative facts was not yet final.

  • BRP HOLD OX, LLC v. Chilian

    Publication Date: 2019-01-30
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: K. Tyler O'Connell, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David P. Primack and David W. Giattino, McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68438

    Application for interlocutory appeal denied where court's application of absolute privilege was not in conflict with prior jurisprudence as alleged falsity of claim of breach of contract was not product of firsthand knowledge, and costs of interlocutory review would likely outweigh benefits.

  • State of Delaware v. Matthews

    Publication Date: 2019-01-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Medinilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph S. Grubb and Zachary D. Rosen, Deputy Attorneys General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    for defendant: Eugene J. Maurer, Jr. and Elise K. Wolpert of Eugene J. Maurer, Jr., P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68412

    The state's misrepresentation of the evidence during closing argument, even if unintentional, prejudiced defendant and compromised the fairness of the proceeding.