30 Nov, 2022 Five Things To Do After a Slip and Fall Accident By Susan D. Ament Clayton E. Bunting Keith E. Donovan Matthew R. Fogg Wilson A. Gualpa Kevin G. Healy Ross C. Karsnitz Michael G. Owen +5 more... Show less A slip and fall accident can happen anywhere, anytime. Many hazardous conditions can lead to dangerously slippery surfaces and a fall -...
28 Nov, 2022 Chancery Finds Asset Purchase Agreement Required Buyer to Indemnify Seller for Liability Under State Tobacco Settlement By Albert H. Manwaring IV Bryan Townsend K. Tyler O'Connell ITG Brands LLC v. Reynolds Am., Inc., C.A. No. 2017-0129-LWW (Del. Ch. Sept. 30, 2022) Plaintiff acquired four cigarette brands from the...
28 Nov, 2022 Chancery Rules That Delisted and Long-Dark Corporation Failed To Show Harm Warranting a Confidentiality Order By Albert H. Manwaring IV K. Tyler O'Connell Bryan Townsend Rivest v. Hauppauge Digital, Inc., C.A. No. 2019-0848-PWG (Del. Ch. Sept. 1, 2022) Plaintiff stockholder sought to inspect the books and...
22 Nov, 2022 Court of Chancery Finds That Complaint Fails To Adequately Plead Caremark Claim In Context Of SolarWinds Cybersecurity Breach By Barnaby Grzaslewicz K. Tyler O'Connell Construction Industry Laborers Pension Fund v. Bingle, C.A. No. 2021-0940-SG (Del. Ch. Sept. 6, 2022) Under the Delaware Supreme Court’s...
17 Nov, 2022 Chancery Addresses Multiple Discovery Scuffles in Twitter and Musk Litigation By Albert J. Carroll Joseph C. Leonard Twitter Inc. v. Elon musk et al., C.A, No. 2022-0613-KSJM (Del Ch. Aug. 23, 2022)Twitter Inc. v. Elon musk et al., C.A, No....
17 Nov, 2022 Chancery Holds Defendant in Civil Contempt for Using Discovery Materials for Business Purpose in Violation of Confidentiality Order By Albert J. Carroll Kirsten A. Zeberkiewicz Murphy Marine Services of Delaware, Inc. v. GT USA Wilmington, LLC, C.A. No. 2018-0664-LWW (Del. Ch. Sept. 19, 2022) During the course of...
17 Nov, 2022 Chancery Denies Preliminary Injunction For Overly Broad Restrictive Covenants By Albert J. Carroll Samuel Bashman Kodiak Building Partners LLC v. Adams, C.A. No. 2022-0311-MTZ (Del. Ch. Oct. 6, 2022) Delaware courts review noncompete and...
17 Nov, 2022 Equitable Fraud Claim Sufficient to Support Court of Chancery Jurisdiction By Albert J. Carroll R. Eric Hacker Lewis H. Lazarus Trust Robin, Inc. v. Tissue Analytics, Inc., C.A. No. 2021-0806-SG (Del. Ch. Sep. 29, 2022) After initially questioning its own subject...
17 Nov, 2022 Chancery Finds Personal Jurisdiction Over Individual Who Formed Delaware Entities in Connection with a Challenged Merger Transaction By Lewis H. Lazarus R. Eric Hacker Albert J. Carroll In Re P3 Health Grp. Hldgs., LLC, Consol. C.A. No. 2021-0518-JTL (Del. Ch. Oct. 14, 2022) The Court of Chancery rejected an individual...
17 Nov, 2022 Board Lacks Standing to Bring Motion to Dismiss Because it Delegated That Authority to Special Litigation Committee By Albert J. Carroll R. Eric Hacker Lewis H. Lazarus Rowan v. Infinity Q Capital Mgmt., LLC, C.A. No. 2022-0176-MTZ (Del. Ch. Sep. 12, 2022) If a conflicted board delegates all authority...
17 Nov, 2022 Chancery Suggests Alternative Approach to Contracts Providing That Prohibited Acts are Void Ab Initio By Barnaby Grzaslewicz K. Tyler O'Connell XRI Investment Holdings LLC v. Holifield, et al., C.A. No. 2021-0619-JTL (Del. Ch. Sept. 13, 2022) Under precedents such as CompoSecure,...
15 Nov, 2022 Chancery Determines Divorcee Was One Share Short of Equal Ownership Needed To Avoid Removal from Leadership of Business Empire By Albert H. Manwaring IV Bryan Townsend Albert J. Carroll Haart v. Scaglia, C.A. No. 2022-0145-MTZ (Del. Ch. Aug. 4, 2022) In public, a high-powered couple presented themselves as equal owners of...
15 Nov, 2022 Implied Covenant of Good Faith Covers Contractual Conditions “Too Obvious” to State Expressly in Indemnification Dispute By Lewis H. Lazarus R. Eric Hacker Albert J. Carroll Baldwin v. New Wood Resources, LLC, App. No. 303, 2021 (Del. Aug. 16, 2022)This appeal involved an underlying claim that Baldwin had...
14 Nov, 2022 Chancery Dismisses Claims Alleging Directors Approved Spring-Loaded Stock Options Before Press Releases on COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts By Albert H. Manwaring IV Bryan Townsend K. Tyler O'Connell In re Vaxart, Inc. S’holder Litig., Consol. C.A. No. 2020-0767-PAF (Del. Ch. June 3, 2022) A small biotechnology company issued a press...
14 Nov, 2022 Chancery Concludes That Transaction Meets MFW Standard By Lewis H. Lazarus R. Eric Hacker Albert J. Carroll In re Match Grp. Inc. Deriv. Lit., Cons. C.A. 2020-0505-MTZ (Del. Ch. Sep. 1, 2022) Under the so-called MFW framework, a transaction with...
14 Nov, 2022 Chancery Addresses eDiscovery Self-Collection in Pro Se Defense of Restrictive Covenant Dispute By Albert J. Carroll Joseph C. Leonard Summit Fire & Security LLC v. Kolias, C.A. No. 2022-0460-MTZ (Del. Ch. Aug. 19, 2022) “Self-collection” in eDiscovery refers to a party...