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  • August 13, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

    NJ's Top Personal Injury Awards Total Nearly $654M

    The awards this year totaled about $654 million, which is much higher than last year's total of $169.3 million, and which makes the average award this year $32.7 million.

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  • December 5, 2022 | Delaware Law Weekly

    Fox Asks Court to Consolidate Dominion Lawsuits, Saying It Shouldn't Try Same Defamation Case Twice

    Having two separate jury trials would be not only a waste of time and resources for both the court and the litigants involved, but a violation of Delaware law, Fox lawyers said.

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  • Cipercen LLC v. Morningside Texas Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-09-27
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew K. Wegner, Brown Wegner LLP, Irvine, CA for plaintiffs/third-party plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patricia R. Urban., Megan Ix Brison, Pinckney Weidinger Urban & Joyce, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey Hurt, Hurt & Berry, LLP, Dallas, TX for defendant/counterclaim plaintiff. Francis G.X. Pileggi, Cheneise V. Wright, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dennis D. Leone, Sunjay D. Trehan, Shankman Leone, P.A., Tampa, FL for third-party defendant.
    Case Number: N19C-12-074 EMD CCLD

    The court granted both parties' motions to dismiss a fraudulent inducement and breach of contract case.

  • Surf's Up Legacy Partners LLC v. Virgin Fest, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore A. Kittila, James G. MacMillan, III, Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric M. George, Kim S. Zeldin, Browne George Ross LLP, Los Angeles CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert K. Beste, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Marvin S. Putnam, Jessica Stebbins Bina, R. Peter Durning, Jr., Latham & Watkins LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69659

    Motion of law firm to intervene to attach an attorney's lien for a judgment for unpaid legal fees denied where firm's right to attach the lien was contractually limited only to causes of actions that were the subject of the engagement agreement, and the firm sought to intervene in a completely unrelated legal action.

  • March 10, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Transferring Cases From Chancery Court to Superior Court: A Step-by-Step Guide

    This step-by-step guide was created after many years of "trial and error" and eventual success transferring several cases from the Court of Chancery to Superior Court.

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  • January 27, 2021 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    16th Annual Review of Key Del. Corporate and Commercial Decisions (Part 2)

    This is the 16th year that Francis G.X. Pileggi has published an annual list of key corporate and commercial decisions of the Delaware Supreme Court and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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  • Delaware State Sportsmen's Ass'n v. Garvin

    Publication Date: 2020-12-02
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis G. X. Pileggi, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jamie L. Inferrera, Eckert Seamens Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Devera B. Scott, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, DE; Kayli H. Spialter, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69207

    State erred in issuing restrictions on permissible rifles for hunting where statutory law did not include such restrictions and the state failed to comply with the APA in issuing what constituted a de facto regulation.

  • Schmidt v. The Washington Newspaper Publ'g Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-10-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Scott
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bartholomew J. Dalton, Dalton & Assoc., PA, Wilmington, DE; Andrea L. Lewis, Searcey, Denney, Scarola Barnhart & Ship-ley, PA, West Palm Beach, FL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Bellew, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE; Todd R. Ehrenreich and David L. Luck of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, Miami, FL for defendant.
    Case Number: D68740

    Plaintiff's defamation claims were timely filed in accordance with Delaware's savings statute, but Delaware was not a proper forum for this dispute, so the court granted defendant's motion to dismiss.

  • May 5, 2008 | National Law Journal

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