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  • BitGo Holdings, Inc. v. Galaxy Digital Holdings, Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-03
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, Michael A. Barlow, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; R. Brian Timmons, David M. Grable, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; David Cooper, Deborah K. Brown, Nathan Goralnik, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Bradley R. Aronstam, S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew Ditchfield, Brian M. Burnovski, Pascale Bibi, Kyra Macy Kaufman, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY; Neal Kumar Katyal, Nathaniel A.G. Zelinsky, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Washington, D.C., Dennis H. Tracey, III, Hogan Lovells US LLP, New York, NY for appellees.
    Case Number: 2022-0808

    Court remanded for reconsideration of interpretation of contractual requirement using extrinsic evidence where both parties proffered reasonable interpretations of the provision.

  • TransPerfect Global, Inc. v. Pincus

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam K. Bult, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Las Vegas, NV; Jeremy Eicher, Eicher Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Alan M. Dershowitz, Cambridge, MA for appellants.
    for defendant: Jennifer C. Voss, Cliff C. Gardner, Elisa M.C. Klein, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D69868

    Chancery court erred in holding company's majority shareholder and controller in contempt of violating an exclusive jurisdiction order where shareholder was not a party to the out-of-state action filed in contempt of the chancery court's order and where controlling stake did not itself make shareholder personally liable for the company's conduct.

  • Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Estate of Malkin

    Publication Date: 2022-06-07
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ginger D. Anders, Donald B. Verilli, Jr., Brendan B. Gants, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC; Stephen L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Samuel O. Patmore, Jenea M. Reed, Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. for appellants.
    for defendant: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE; Gregory J. Star, Michael L. Miller, Joseph M. Kelleher, Cozen O’Connor P.C., Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: D69841

    Bona fide purchaser or securities intermediary could not assert UCC defenses to estate's claim to recover death benefit from stranger-originated life insurance policy since Delaware public policy precluded any party from profiting off an illegal wager on human life.

  • Chavis v. State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nichole M. Walker, John K. Kirk, and Lisa M. Schwind, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian L. Arban, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D68950

    Use of lab analysts' reports by testifying analyst who also participated in DNA profile matching did not violate defendant's Confrontation Clause rights where reports were non-testimonial because they did not substitute for testimony that would be used to prove an essential element of the crime.

  • Delaware Bd. of Nursing v. Francis

    Publication Date: 2018-10-17
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law | Regulation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla A.K. Jarosz, attorney for appellant
    for defendant: Daniel A. Griffith, attorney for appellees.
    Case Number: D68318

    State not obligated to prove that nurse's breach of professional standards also caused harm to a patient or the public to impose discipline for violations.