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  • Marqunez v. Dole Food Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Mass Torts
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Food and Beverage
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates P.A., Wilmington, DE; Scott M. Hendler, Hendler Flores Law, Austin, TX for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Wasson, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ryan D. Stottmann, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam V. Orlacchio, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., Phillips Goldman & Spence P.A., Wilmington, DE; Andrea E. Neuman, Mary Beth Maloney, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; William E. Thomson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael L. Brem, Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia Brem LLP, Houston, TX for defendants.
    Case Number: 12-695-RGA

    Court declined to grant summary judgment for defendants where the parties' joint expert persuasively opined that plaintiffs' complaint qualified as a protective action under relevant Ecuadoran law, making plaintiffs' claims not time-barred under the Delaware borrowing statute.

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: December 9, 2022

    Publication Date: 2022-12-09
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:December 7, 2022

  • Appellate Division,Second Department

    Publication Date: 2022-05-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:May 18, 2022

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: December 13, 2021

    Publication Date: 2021-12-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, Second Department: December 13, 2021

  • Chaverri v. Dole Food Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott M. Hendler, Rebecca Webber, Hendler Flores, PLLC, Austin, TX; Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton and Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Andrea E. Neuman, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY, William E. Thomson, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Jennifer C. Wasson, Stephanie E. O’Byrne, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Boaz S. Morag, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY; James W. Semple, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam V. Orlacchio, Brandon W. McCune, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael L. Brem, Schirrmeister Diaz-Arrastia Brem LLP, Houston, TX; Ryan D. Stottman, Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Craig Stanfield, King & Spalding LLP, Houston, TX; Kelly E. Farnan, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Jr., Phillips, Goldman & Spence, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69319

    Superior court did not abuse discretion in denying motion to vacate dismissal based on after-decided federal cases where differences between the federal first-filed rule and Delaware's first-filed rule meant the superior court could handle plaintiffs' second-filed action differently than it might be handled under the federal rule.

  • Appellate Division, Second Department:November 2, 2020

    Publication Date: 2020-12-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, Second Department: November 2, 2020

  • April 3, 2020 | Daily Business Review

    Chiquita Sued by Nonprofit Alleging Colombians Hurt by Company's 'Campaign of Terror'

    A new lawsuit alleging Chiquita engaged in a "campaign of terror" is similar to a class action dismissed by a South Florida federal judge.

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  • March 9, 2020 | Texas Lawyer

    Newsmakers: Week of March 9, 2020

    Prominent Dallas Lawyer Dies at 96 James E. "Jim" Coleman Jr., of the firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, passed away Feb. 22…

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  • March 5, 2020 | New Jersey Law Journal

    NEW PARTNERS YEARBOOK 2020

    Profiles of 137 newly made and laterally hired partners at New Jersey firms, from February 2019 through January 2020,

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  • Chaverri v. Dole Food Co.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-27
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Agriculture | Food and Beverage
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rocanelli
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Scott M. Hendler, Hendler Flores, PLLC, Austin, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Somers S. Price, Jr., Potter, Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrea Neuman and Thomas Manakides, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, New York, NY; Adam Orlacchio and Brandon McCune, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Donald E. Reid, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael L. Brem, Shirrmeister, Diaz-Arrastia, Brem, LLP, Houston, TX; Timothy Jay Houseal, Jennifer M. Kinkus, and William E. Gamgort, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John C. Phillips, Phillips, Goldman, McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kelly E. Farnan and Katharine L. Mowery, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; James Semple, Cooch & Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68783

    Motion to vacate due to intervening legal decisions denied where plaintiffs unreasonably delayed filing their motion and where decisions cited in support of motion were non-controlling law.