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In The Matter of the Rehab. of Scottish RE (U.S.), Inc., LLC

Publication Date: 2022-05-03
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Insurance | State and Local Government
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Ladig, GianClaudio Finizio, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Diane J. Bartels, Wilmington, DE; James J. Black, III, Jeffrey B. Miceli, Mark W. Drasnin, Black & Gerngross, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Michael Busenkell, Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown, LLC, Wilmington, DE for Scottish RE (U.S.), Inc.
for defendant: Marisa R. DeFeo, Randall S. MacTough, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher Viceconte, Gibbons P.C., Wilmington, DE; Daniel Hargraves, Freeborn & Peters LLP, New York, NY; Randall S. MacTough, Zarwin Baum Devito Kaplan Schaer Toddy, PC, Wilmington, DE; Joseph B. Cicero, Gregory Stuhlman, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; R. Stephen McNeill, D. Ryan Slaugh, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Willaim P. Bowden, Catherine A. Gaul, Ricardo Palacio, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., Paul S. Seward, Phillips, Goldman, Mclaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph C. Schoell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kathleen M. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins, LLP, Wilmington, DE; David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John G. Harris, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE, Garrett B. Moritz, Elizabeth M. Taylor, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew A. Clemente, R. Bradley Drake, John Grothaus, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL; Joelle E. Polesky, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, Wilmington, DE, Travis S. Hunter, Renee M. Mosley, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jarret P. Hitchings, Duane Morris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph Larkin, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Barry M. Klayman, Simon Fraser, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Kevin J. Mangan, Nicholas T. Verna, Womble Bond Dickerson (US) LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jody Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter H. Kyle, John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE, for shareholders and third-parties.
Case Number: D69799

In this case of first impression, the court found that the liquidation standard did not operate as a per se requirement for plan approval.

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Connecticut's high court concluded, "[a]lthough HBV is contagious, and can be transmitted through means outside the work place, for dental hygienists it is a disease so distinctly associated with their profession that the necessary causal connection is present."

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Pa. High Court Rejects Appeals in Pipeline Construction Zoning Cases

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Court to Decide Key Issue Regarding Eminent Domain Power

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Tuohy v. City of Atlanta

Publication Date: 2015-06-11
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Kessler Martenson Hasbrouck Simon LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Y. Soo Jo, Kristi Matthews, and Robert Godfrey City of Atlanta Law Department, Atlanta, for appellees.
Case Number: A14A2148

The plaintiff failed to show that the City's reasons for terminating his employment were pretextual in his suit alleging that he was terminated in retaliation in violation of the Georgia Whistleblowe

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Making Sense of Class Actions After 'Braun' and 'Dukes'

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently affirmed a $187 million jury award to a class of Pennsylvania Wal-Mart employees in Braun v. Wal-Mart Stores, No. 32 EAP 2012, __ A.3d ___ (P

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February 10, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

Making Sense of Class Actions After 'Braun' and 'Dukes'

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently affirmed a $187 million jury award to a class of Pennsylvania Wal-Mart employees in , No. 32 EAP 2012, __ A.3d ___ (Pa. 2014). Commenters have suggested conflicts with the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in , 131 S.Ct. 2541 (2011), that a class may be certified only when the individual class members' claims are susceptible to common proof without reliance on statistical evidence.

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City of San Jose v. Superior Court (Smith)

Publication Date: 2014-03-28
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Date Filed: 2014-03-27
Court: C.A. 6th
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Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Petitioners:Richard Doyle, City Attorney, Nora Frimann, Assistant City Attorney and Margo Laskowska, Sr. Deputy City Attorney
for defendant: No Appearance for Respondent
Case Number: No. H039498

Cite as 14 C.D.O.S. 3443 CITY OF SAN JOSE et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF