• September 5, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

    People in the News—Sept. 5, 2023—Barley Snyder, Frost Brown

    Barley Snyder announced that associate attorney Adam Boyer has been unanimously appointed to the board of directors for the United Way of Adams County.

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  • September 4, 2023 | The Recorder

    Challenges to Corporate Decision-Making in the Face of Increasingly Polarized Responses to ESG Initiatives

    A wave of "conservative" political lawsuits and advocacy campaigns seeking to advance "anti-ESG" or "anti-woke" themes have resulted in certain companies de-emphasizing disclosure of their ESG initiatives, according to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's Stephen Blake and Sareen Armani.

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  • Data Logger Solutions, LLC v. Digi Smartsense, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Manufacturing | Retail | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Krista M. Reale, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE; Herbert W. Mondros, Rigrodsky Law, P.A. Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: K. Tyler O’Connell, Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Samuel E. Bashman, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric C. Liebeler, Kevin Kitchen, Connor Shaull, Stinson LLP, Minneapolis, MN for defendants.

    Case Number: N20C-10-121-EMD

    Concluding that the facts alleged for the breach of contract claim in the original complaint were similar to those pled in the claim for tortious interference in the amended complaint, the court denied defendant's motion to dismiss finding that defendant was provided sufficient notice of the tortious interference claim to relate back to the original complaint.

  • In Re: Proton Pump Inhibitors Prod. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Martin Bienstock, Bienstock PLLC, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James J. Freebery, Daniel J. Brown, Makenzie Windfelder, Hayley J. Reese, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Arthur E. Brown, William Hoffman, Matthew Douglas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Amy K. Fisher, Katherine D. Althoff, Carolyn E. Riggs, Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Craig A. Thompson, Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-07-001 PPI

    Plaintiff brought the underlying personal injury action against defendants alleging that defendants were responsible for developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing proton pump inhibitor products that were unsafe, defectively designed, lacked proper warnings, and were unfit to be marketed and sold in the United States. Defendants individually and collectively moved to dismiss the claims. Plaintiff brought the case as administrator of a health care plan directly and as subrogee of its members' claims for a variety of injurie

  • August 24, 2023 | National Law Journal

    Big Law Demand for Regulatory Partners Stays Strong, With Steptoe, K&S, Husch Adding Talent

    "The IRA was like gasoline on a fire," said new Steptoe partner Chris Zentz, referring to the Inflation Reduction Act's effect on renewable energy projects.

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  • In Re: Proton Pump Inhibitors Prod. Liab. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Martin Bienstock, Bienstock PLLC, Washington, D.C. for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James J. Freebery, Daniel J. Brown, Makenzie Windfelder, Hayley J. Reese, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Arthur E. Brown, William Hoffman, Matthew Douglas, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Amy K. Fisher, Katherine D. Althoff, Carolyn E. Riggs, Ice Miller LLP, Indianapolis, IN; Philip A. Rovner, Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sherry Knutson, Tucker Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Craig A. Thompson, Venable LLP, Baltimore, MD for defendants.

    Case Number: N17C-07-001 PPI

    Plaintiff brought the underlying personal injury action against defendants alleging that defendants were responsible for developing, manufacturing, marketing, and distributing proton pump inhibitor products that were unsafe, defectively designed, lacked proper warnings, and were unfit to be marketed and sold in the United States. Defendants individually and collectively moved to dismiss the claims. Plaintiff brought the case as administrator of a health care plan directly and as subrogee of its members' claims for a variety of injurie

  • United States v. Teijeiro

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Duncan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-10227

    Appellant pled guilty to possession of child pornography.

  • August 18, 2023 | Litigation Daily

    Another Stellar Batch of Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout Outs

    Boies Schiller Flexner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check and Grant & Eisenhofer won more than $600 million in damages for shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at trial against the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

    7 minute read

  • August 17, 2023 | New York Law Journal

    Social Media, Samuel Clemens and the Slow Demise of SEC Filings

    This article highlights Elon Musk's tweets and the SVB regional bank disaster while questioning the continued utility of traditional form filings designed to update investors.

    9 minute read

  • August 16, 2023 | New York Law Journal

    Judge Issues Order Compelling Giuliani to Comply With Smartmatic Discovery

    Manhattan Judge David Cohen was apparently unmoved by arguments that Giuliani could not afford to pay his discovery vendor.

    3 minute read