• In re GGP, Inc. Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Ronald A. Brown, Jr., Stephen D. Dargitz, J. Clayton Athey, Marcus E. Montejo, Samuel L. Closic, Prickett Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Carl L. Stine, Adam J. Blander, Antoinette Adesanya, Wolf Popper LLP, New York, NY; Brian D. Long, Long Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Frank P. DiPrima, Law Office of Frank DiPrima, P.A., Morristown, NJ for appellants.
    for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, John M. Seaman, Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; John A. Neuwirth, Evert J. Christensen, Jr., Seth Goodchild, Matthew S. Connors, Nicole E. Prunetti, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Berton W. Ashman, Jr., and Jaclyn C. Levy, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter E. Kazanoff, Michael J. Garvey, Sara A. Ricciardi, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY; Raymond J. Dicamillo, Susan M. Hannigan, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; Brian T. Frawley, Y. Carson Zhou, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY; David J. Teklits, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: D69905

    Dividing merger transaction into substantial pre-closing dividend and meager "per share merger consideration" did not frustrate stockholders' appraisal rights since dividend legally constituted merger consideration.

  • Emory University d/b/a Emory University Hospital Smyrna et al. v. Kennestone Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Wellstar Windy Hill Hospital

    Publication Date: 2022-07-28
    Practice Area: Regulation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Threlkeld, Elliott Coward, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Armando Basarrate, David Darden, Grace Kopache, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs), Atlanta, David Conley, Robert Ingram, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, Amy Weil, (The Weil Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Christopher Carr, Margaret Eckrote, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Stacey Hillock, (Department of Community Health), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, Dale Cecka, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Cathelynn Tio, (Office of the Attorney General, Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A22A0111

    Court finds that a health care facility required a new Certificate of Need to convert from a long-term to short-term acute care facility

  • July 18, 2022 | National Law Journal

    Did the Federal Circuit Just Issue the 'Most Restrictive Patent Eligibility Decision Yet'?

    Latham and Goodwin Procter persuaded the Federal Circuit that CareDx patents for detecting organ transplant rejection are invalid because they apply a natural law using conventional techniques. Weil Gotshal argues that the patented techniques are anything but conventional, and that the decision will "suffocate innovation in the life-saving arts."

    3 minute read

  • July 17, 2022 | The American Lawyer

    Over 2,200 Male Partners Start Own Call to Action Post-Dobbs

    The effort is in solidarity with a similar effort by thousands of women law firm partners who pledged to support reproductive rights in the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

    67 minute read

  • July 15, 2022 | The Recorder

    Copyright's Discovery Rule Is Alive and Well, if You Don't Take the Supreme Court Too Literally

    Ninth Circuit Judge Kim Wardlaw wrote in Starz v. MGM that if the statute of limitations doesn't accrue until copyright infringement is discovered, then the three-year damages period shouldn't start till then either. That sets up a split with the Second Circuit.

    3 minute read

  • July 15, 2022 | Law.com

    Skilled in the Art With Scott Graham: The Discovery Rule Is Alive and Well, So Long as You Don't Take the Supreme Court Too Literally + A Former Federal Circuit Clerk Is Nominated to the District Court Bench

    Ninth Circuit Judge Kim Wardlaw wrote in Starz v. MGM that if the statute of limitations doesn't accrue until copyright infringement is discovered, then the three-year damages period shouldn't start till then either. That sets up a split with the Second Circuit.

    11 minute read

  • July 15, 2022 | Litigation Daily

    A Two-Week Haul of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    The runners-up this week are headed up by defense teams that represented the five remaining five chicken industry executives who went to trial for a third time on criminal antitrust charges in federal court in Denver.

    11 minute read

  • July 5, 2022 | The American Lawyer

    More Than 2,650 Women Partners From 190 Firms Issue Call to Action Post-'Dobbs'

    "Our presence and leadership within the bar is without question a byproduct of the freedom each of us has had to make reproductive decisions for ourselves," the thousands of signatories from about 190 firms wrote.

    94 minute read

  • Zepeda-Lopez v. Garland

    Publication Date: 2022-07-05
    Practice Area: Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Denny Chin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Petitioners: Christina Colón Williams, Esperanza Center for Law & Advocacy, Norwalk, CT.
    for defendant: For Respondent: Brian Boynton, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Shelley R. Goad, Assistant Director, on the brief, Monica G. Antoun, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC. For Amici Curiae HIAS, International Refugee Assistance Project, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, and Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, in support of Petitioners: Jon Bauer, Asylum and Human Rights Clinic, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT.

    Case Number: 19-145 ag

    Dual National Asylum Applicant Need Only Show Persecution in Single Country of Nationality

  • Doe v. Syracuse Univ.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-01
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Laurence Love
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 950596/2020

    Child Victims Act Claims Survive Against Syracuse University, Board