30 Jun, 2021 Partner Matthew Fogg Discusses the Multi-District Litigation against Aziyo Biologics and Medtronic Regarding Tainted Fibercel Bone Grafts By Matthew R. Fogg Partner Matthew Fogg discusses the nationwide lawsuits against Aziyo Biologics, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. and the recall of tainted...
28 Jun, 2021 What are the next steps in the first U.S lawsuit filed against Delaware manufacturers? By Keith E. Donovan Managing Partner Keith Donovan discusses the tainted FiberCel bone graft material and nationwide Tuberculosis outbreak. Morris James and...
28 Jun, 2021 Product Liability FAQs By Keith E. Donovan Matthew R. Fogg Michael G. Owen Each year, thousands of Americans are injured by defective or poorly made products. Despite the government regulations that exist, some...
28 Jun, 2021 Chancery Finds No Transaction-Specific Control Where Plaintiffs Failed to Allege Members of a Special Committee Were Under the Sway of a Controller By K. Tyler O'Connell In re GGP Inc. Stockholder Litig., C.A. No. 2018-0267-JRS (Del. Ch. May 25, 2021). Under MFW and its progeny, if there is a conflicted...
23 Jun, 2021 Have you Developed Tuberculosis from a Bone Graft used During Spinal Surgery? By Susan D. Ament Keith E. Donovan Matthew R. Fogg Wilson A. Gualpa Kevin G. Healy Ross C. Karsnitz Michael G. Owen +4 more... Show less Morris James and Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky are helping victims of the tuberculosis outbreak in connection with the FiberCel bone graft...
23 Jun, 2021 Chancery Clarifies When Related Agreements Will Be Construed Together By Lewis H. Lazarus Albert J. Carroll Murphy Marine Services of Delaware, Inc. v. GT USA Wilmington, LLC (Del. Ch. May 28, 2021) When interpreting a contract, Delaware courts...
22 Jun, 2021 Delaware Court of Chancery Applies Direct/Derivative Distinction In Voting Context By Lewis H. Lazarus R. Eric Hacker K. Tyler O'Connell Clifford Paper, Inc. v. WPP Investors, LLC, 2021 WL 2211694 (Del. Ch. Jun. 1, 2021)The disenfranchisement of an investor with voting or...
22 Jun, 2021 Stockholders Lack Derivative Standing to Challenge Transactions Whose Terms Were Set Before They Became Stockholders By K. Tyler O'Connell Barnaby Grzaslewicz In re SmileDirectClub, Inc., 2021 WL 2182827 (Del. Ch. May 28, 2021)Under the “contemporaneous ownership rule,” to have standing to bring...
21 Jun, 2021 CDC, FDA investigating rare tuberculosis outbreak potentially linked to contaminated bone repair product By Morris James LLP A CDC spokesperson confirmed 105 patients who received the recalled lot of FiberCel Fiber Viable Bone Matrix are being treated for TB...
21 Jun, 2021 What is the Aziyo FiberCel case all about? By Susan D. Ament Keith E. Donovan Kevin G. Healy Michael G. Owen +1 more... Show less On June 16, 2021, Morris James LLP filed a lawsuit against Aziyo Biologics, Inc. (Aziyo) and Medtronic entities (Medtronic) on behalf of...
19 Jun, 2021 CDC investigating TB cases linked to tainted bone repair product used in more than 100 patients By Susan D. Ament Keith E. Donovan Matthew R. Fogg Kevin G. Healy Michael G. Owen +2 more... Show less Washington Post Link to story Federal and state health officials are investigating a rare tuberculosis outbreak among more than 100...
17 Jun, 2021 Delaware Suit May Be First of Many Over Bone Graft Linked to Tuberculosis By Susan D. Ament Keith E. Donovan Matthew R. Fogg Kevin G. Healy Michael G. Owen +2 more... Show less Delaware Law Weekly A Delaware man is the first to take legal action against the manufacturer of a batch of a bone graft product that’s...
16 Jun, 2021 First U.S. Lawsuit Filed Against Aziyo Biologics, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc. By Susan D. Ament Keith E. Donovan Matthew R. Fogg Kevin G. Healy Michael G. Owen +2 more... Show less On Behalf Of Delaware Patient Infected With Tuberculosis After Receiving Tainted Surgical Bone Graft Product During Spinal Fusion A...
15 Jun, 2021 Chancery Orders Specific Performance of Deal, Despite Lack of Debt Financing, Finding that COVID-Related Business Decline Was Not an MAE By Kirsten A. Zeberkiewicz Barnaby Grzaslewicz K. Tyler O'Connell Snow Phipps Grp., LLC v. KCake Acquisition, Inc., 2020-0282-KSJM (Del. Ch. Apr. 30, 2021) In Snow Phipps, the Court of Chancery refused...
09 Jun, 2021 Manichaean Capital, LLC: For the First Time, the Court of Chancery Recognizes the Viability of Reverse Veil-Piercing in Rare Circumstances By R. Eric Hacker Delaware Business Court Insider In a case of first impression, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III in Manichaean Capital, LLC v. Excela...
07 Jun, 2021 Morris James Proudly Sponsors 3rd Annual Great Futures Gala By Sherry A. Leary CLM Dawn V. Sheiker Cindy L. Szabo Morris James is proud to sponsor the third annual Great Futures Gala held on June 11. All proceeds from the Great Futures Gala...