• February 13, 2025 | Law.com

    'Legal Frankenstein' Led to PCB Verdict, Monsanto Tells Washington Supreme Court

    On Tuesday, Monsanto attorney Lauren Goldman of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher asked the Washington Supreme Court to overturn a jury's $185 million PCB verdict in 2021.

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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.

  • 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.

  • September 28, 2018 | Texas Lawyer

    Half-Dozen Big Law Firms Advise on Chemical, Beverage Deals

    Wachtell, Weil, V&E, Skadden, Gibson Dunn and Cleary Gottlieb are handling a pair of big transactions with Texas ties.

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  • May 22, 2018 | Litigation Daily

    Daily Dicta: Here's the Skinny: Plaintiffs on Losing Streak in Diet Soda Class Actions

    Drinking diet soda will not make you skinny—and may actually do the opposite. But that's not enough to sustain would-be class actions against Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke and Diet Dr. Pepper.

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  • March 22, 2018 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Del. Supreme Court Rejects Requirement of Alternative Forum Before Case Dismissal

    The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday declined to adopt a rule that would require state courts to determine that an alternative forum is available to plaintiffs before dismissing cases on the grounds of forum non conveniens.

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  • January 26, 2018 | Litigation Daily

    Daily Dicta: Litigator of the Week; Quinn Emanuel Comes Through for Billionaire Investor; Don McGahn Takes a Stand

    Mimi McKenzie, the legal director of the Public Interest Law Center, and David Gersch, who led the Arnold & Porter pro bono team are our litigators of the week, plus Quinn Emanuel prevails for Len Blavatnik and Access Industries.

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  • December 2, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Deal Watch: Jones Day Helps Ink $4.3B Deal for Air Filtration Client

    In an otherwise slow week for mergers and acquisitions, one company made the biggest deal in its history. In its largest acquisition ever, on Dec. 1 longtime Cleveland, Ohio-based man

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  • September 6, 2016 | Delaware Business Court Insider

    Banana Farmers' Toxic Pesticide Cases Revived

    The Third Circuit, reviewing federal courts' discretion under the "first-filed" rule, has revived six lawsuits by hundreds of workers who accused Dole Food Co. Inc., Chiquita B

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