• Earth Pride Organics, LLC v. Corona-Orange Foods Intermediate Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2025-01-07
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamie L. Brown, Brendan Patrick McDonnell, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael D. Adams, Lucas K. Hori, Rutan & Tucker, LLP, Irvine, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Anne M. Steadman, Reed Smith, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael Leib, Reed Smith, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-05-009-EMD CCLD

    Court granted plaintiffs leave to amend where contract and fraud claims did not fall within the parties' dispute resolution clause that was limited to valuation determinations by an independent accountant and plaintiffs pled their fraud claim with sufficient particularity.

  • Genworth Fin., Inc. v. AIG Specialty Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer C. Wasson, Carla M. Jones, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kenneth H. Frnechman, Michelle R. Migdon, Orrie A. Levy, Samantha Smith, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Kelly E. Rowe, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE: Scott B. Schreiber, Arthur Luk, William C. Perdue, Samuel I. Ferenc, Matthew Bemis, Arnold & Porter Kay Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; John C. Phillips, David A. Biilson, Phillips McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Douglas M. Mangel, Michelle Beecy, Clyde & Co LLP, Washington, D.C.; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Jung H. Park, Ropers Majeski, PC, New York, NY; Robert J. Katzenstein, Julie M. O’Dell, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew Beato, Jason Chronic, Jessica N. Gallinaro, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C.; Karen H. Ventrell, CNA Corporate Litigation, Washington, D.C.; Scott A. Schechter, Matthew Mawby, Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP, Valhalla, NY; John G. Day, Bruce E. Jameson, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Alexis J. Rogoski, Edward C. Carleton, Skarzynski Marick & Black LLC, New York, NY; John L. Reed, DLA Piper (US), Wilmington, DE; Steven J. Brodie, Carlton Fields, P.A., Miami, FL; Charles W. Stotter, Carlton Fields, P.A., New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: N22C-05-057 EMD CCLD

    Claim reserves and underwriting exclusions to professional liability insurance policy did not apply to underlying lawsuits by long-term care insurance policyholders alleging misrepresentations in the marketing and sale arising from the failure to disclose planned or expected premium increases.

  • GEA Sys. N. Am. LLC v. Golden State Food Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-24
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ross, Bradley R. Aronstam and R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; E. Hutchinson Robbins, Jr. and Megan B. Burnet, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, MD for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Patricia L. Enerio and Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Randy K. Jones and Ann-Marie Dao, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., San Diego, CA for defendant Golden State Foods Corp. Brian M. Rostocki, Benjamin Chapple and Justin M. Forcier, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for third-party defendant Allianz Global Risks U.S. Ins. Co.

    Case Number: D69025

    In this breach of contract action, defendant adequately alleged a negligence counterclaim, but the court dismissed the remaining counterclaims.

  • United States v. Swisher

    Publication Date: 2016-01-11
    Practice Area:
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    Date Filed: 2016-01-11
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: B. Lynn Winmill, Chief District Judge, Presiding Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge and Stephen Reinhardt, Alex Kozinski, M. Margaret McKeown, Marsha S. Berzon, Richard R. Clifton, Jay S. Bybee, Sandra S. Ikuta, N. Randy Smith, Jacqueline H. Nguyen and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Pellettieri (argued), Attorney, Appellate Section; Leslie R. Caldwell, Assistant Attorney General; Sung-Hee Suh, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    for defendant: Joseph Theodore Horras, Boise, Idaho, for Defendant-Appellant.

    Case Number: No. 11-35796

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 259 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ELVEN JOE SWI

  • September 8, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Reed Smith's Stanley Hopes Third Time's the Charm in West Virginia Case

    When we last checked in with Caperton v. Massey, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that it was unconstitutional for a West Virginia

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  • Pbm Products, LLC; Pbm v. Mead Johnson & Company

    Publication Date: 2011-04-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2011-04-20
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Davis, Circuit Judge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10-1421

    PUBLISHEDArgued: January 27, 2011Before NIEMEYER, DAVIS, and KEENAN, Circuit Judges.Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Davis wrote the opinion, in which Judge Niemeyer and Judge Keena

  • November 13, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    New Day, Same Result in Massey Energy Case

    Two years after the West Virginia Supreme Court threw out a $50 million jury verdict against Massey Energy--and five months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that one of the state justices on the pan

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  • United States of America v. William Samuel Chester, Jr

    Publication Date: 2011-01-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-12-30
    Court: 4th Cir.
    Judge: Traxler, Chief Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 09-4084

    ON REHEARING PUBLISHED&Thorn;Argued: December 4, 2009Decided:Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, and AGEE and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge T