The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chief Judge Connolly in Delaware says they do, and in In re Nimitz, the Federal Circuit denied a request to stop the judge’s inquiry. Later the district court became aware that IP Edge LLC was assigning patents to various LLCs, who in turn were acting as plaintiffs in patent cases filed in the District of Delaware.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Delaware's judiciary announced this week that a former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney who also previously worked for the state's Department of Justice has been appointed to serve as a magistrate in the Chancery Court.

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Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2022

Shareholders of Santander Consumer USA, La Jolla Pharmaceutical, Nektar Therapeutics and Inovalon Holdings filed new suits in Delaware's Court of Chancery last week, and attorneys for billionaire Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. deforested a small hillside to document an increasing number of discovery disputes.

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Law 360

MARCH 13, 2023

Delaware's Chancery Court last week saw new cases from shareholders of World Wrestling Entertainment, Kraft Heinz, Block Inc. and Grayscale Investments.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2023

The US Attorney for the District of Delaware charged Hunter Biden, US President Joe Biden’s son, on Tuesday with tax and firearm offenses. Previously, Hunter Biden disclosed he was under investigation by the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware in 2020 regarding his taxes. Biden faces two tax-related charges.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

Delaware, like many states, has enacted an affidavit of merit law that requires medical-malpractice plaintiffs, in conjunction with filing a complaint, to file an affidavit signed by an expert or the plaintiffs attorney attesting to their belief that the case is meritorious. I rate the odds of a grant in one or both cases high.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Amid a push by Delaware lawmakers to overhaul the First State's corporation law provisions, the state Senate is seeking recommendations aimed at avoiding "excessive" attorney fee awards in corporate litigation, drawing a mixed reaction from members of Delaware's lawyers and corporate law scholars.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Biden claims Giuliani acquired Biden’s computer data illegally from John Paul Mac Issac, an owner of a Delaware computer repair shop. Mac Issac allegedly reached out to Giuliani and mailed Giuliani and Attorney Robert J. Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, alleging violations of federal and California law.

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Law 360

AUGUST 20, 2024

A nearly record-breaking attorney fee got the nod in Delaware last week, along with Chancery Court settlements involving an international private jet service and a chain of trampoline parks.

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Law 360

AUGUST 6, 2024

has agreed to resolve derivative claims in multiple stockholder suits in California federal court and Delaware's Court of Chancery by implementing corporate governance reforms and paying up to $2.15 million to plaintiffs' attorneys, the company has announced. Pop culture lifestyle brand Funko Inc.

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Law 360

JUNE 24, 2024

Amendments to Delaware's General Corporation Law topped the news out of the Court of Chancery again last week, as the hotly contested measure sailed through the state's legislature.

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Law 360

JULY 29, 2024

Litigation linked to billionaire Elon Musk sparked several filings in Delaware's Court of Chancery last week, including a call for sanctions and hand-wringing about a proposed multibillion-dollar attorney fee. Other court activity centered on Paramount's proposed $4.5 and 3D-imaging and digitization venture Matterport Inc.

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LegalReader

MARCH 10, 2022

Usually, the insurance company will simply offer you a settlement rather than allowing the case to go to trial.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

New cases in Chancery Court last week ranged from cannabis control in California to fraud claims in Rwanda, while decisions covered everything from yoga to attorneys blacklisted from concert halls. Oddly enough for Chancery Court regulars, the Twitter disputes happened elsewhere.

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Law 360

APRIL 10, 2024

With Elon Musk's recent decision to reincorporate his companies outside of Delaware, and with more businesses increasingly considering Nevada and Texas as corporate homes, attorneys at Baker Botts look at each jurisdiction's foundation of corporate law, and how the differences can make each more or less appealing based on a corporation's needs.

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Law 360

JUNE 17, 2024

Pointing to recent Tesla stockholder votes to reincorporate in Texas and approve a mammoth Elon Musk pay package voided in Delaware, an attorney for Tesla has asked the Court of Chancery to reconsider holding a July 8 hearing on a proposed multibillion fee for class attorneys who won the Musk salary put-down.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 18, 2022

Unfortunately, most of my clients don’t understand that Delaware is a no-fault state, so they have inadvertently given out the at-fault insurance company claim number and information in a desperate attempt to stop the calls. I include the settlement amount and attorney’s fees. Healthcare liens. This was a game-changer!

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Law 360

APRIL 12, 2024

The proposed Delaware General Corporation Law amendment in response to the Court of Chancery's recent opinion in West Palm Beach Firefighters' Pension Fund v.

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Law 360

APRIL 9, 2024

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has bolstered its Delaware office with the addition of a commercial and bankruptcy attorney who formerly operated her own firm for more than six years.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The new charges join the two previous charges filed against him in a federal court in Delaware. US Attorney General appointed Special Prosecutor David Weiss to conduct and oversee the investigation into Biden in August, which led to the indictment issued on Thursday. He is also charged with one count of violating 26 U.S.C.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 1, 2023

The attorney I worked for, and his paralegal, took me under their wings and exposed me to the wonderful world of Plaintiff’s work. I was stressing about what the attorney would think, worried about getting fired, and all of that angst and fear spilled over into my other files and reflected in my attitude.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Fox Rothschild LLP has added an attorney to its Delaware office who spent more than a decade at commercial litigation boutique Abrams & Bayliss LLP to bolster its ability to handle cases in the Chancery and other courts.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A recent Delaware decision in Twitter v. Musk underscores that policies and practices relating to a company's right to access personal emails on its accounts may affect any attorney-client privilege that otherwise would protect such emails from discovery in litigation, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 17, 2021

At a time when Philadelphia and other big cities are seeing a surge in homicides and fatal shootings , Delaware County’s lone city is experiencing the opposite. Prosecutors in Delaware County are reluctant to attribute those trends to a single factor. I will turn myself in tomorrow,” according to court filings.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A Delaware-based construction industry supplier with operations in Ohio has pled guilty to willfully violating federal workplace safety regulations in connection with the 2020 death of an employee, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced.

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Law 360

MAY 26, 2023

Attorneys for former CBS Corp. the attorneys told the Delaware Chancery Court in a stipulation filed Friday. stockholders are seeking more than $45 million in fees for their work on a $167.5 million settlement to end class litigation over alleged damages arising from the company's $30 billion merger in 2019 with Viacom Inc.,

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

An attorney for cybersecurity venture Mandiant Inc. told Delaware's chancellor on Friday that its $1.2 billion sale of affiliate FireEye Products in 2021 never came close to an "all or substantially all" of a company transaction requiring shareholder approval.

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Law 360

JULY 11, 2022

Former Attorney General William Barr has been subpoenaed in Dominion Voting Systems' massive defamation suit alleging Fox News Network published unfounded election fraud claims, according to a docket entry in the Delaware state court case.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2023

million to settle allegations brought by its former chief compliance officer accusing the Delaware-based healthcare provider of engaging in a kickback scheme with private neonatology physicians, attorneys representing the whistleblower said Thursday. ChristianaCare will pay $47.1

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Grant & Eisenhofer PA attorneys are representing a pension fund investor in dating app company Bumble Inc. in a Delaware Chancery Court suit accusing company officers and controlling shareholder Blackstone Inc. of manipulating a September 2021 secondary public offering to unfairly benefit Blackstone affiliates.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An attorney for Camping World Holdings Inc. directors told a Delaware vice chancellor Tuesday that stockholder claims for derivative damages tied to $530 million in alleged insider trading can't pass newly clarified court requirements to show the futility of demands for company-led litigation.

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Law 360

MARCH 16, 2023

stockholder who sued in Delaware's Chancery Court to delay a stockholder vote on a $1 billion note issuance says his attorneys should get a $850,000 fee award because the lawsuit prompted better disclosures about the company's $4.4 A Unity Software Inc. billion merger with ironSource Ltd.

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2023

A consulting firm founded by a former BDO USA LLP partner that lost a defamation lawsuit by default due to "egregious acts of spoliation" urged Delaware Superior Court Friday to reject BDO's request for $5.23 million in attorney fees and expenses, calling the proposed amount "a death sentence."

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Law 360

MAY 19, 2023

Attorneys representing stockholders who have struck a $48.5 million deal to end one of two suits in Delaware Chancery Court over Madison Square Garden Entertainment's 2021 merger with MSG Networks plan to seek up to roughly $14.6 million for their work on the case.

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Law 360

JUNE 29, 2023

stockholder settlement, a class attorney defended as historic on Thursday a potential $120 million deal to end a Delaware Chancery Court suit over a company share conversion and reverse stock split. Acknowledging investor losses and "meme" stock passions driving objections to a proposed AMC Entertainment Inc.

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Law 360

APRIL 27, 2023

Attorneys for AMC Entertainment and common stockholders who sued over a purportedly unfair preferred-to-common share conversion sent documents outlining a $120 million settlement to a Delaware vice chancellor Thursday, minutes after she tersely warned that the papers were late and a proposed fast-track settlement schedule was at risk.

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Law 360

AUGUST 14, 2023

Shareholders who filed dueling Delaware Chancery Court suits over Madison Square Garden Entertainment's 2021 merger with MSG Networks won court approval Monday for $133.5 million worth of settlements to resolve the two disputes, with attorneys for the plaintiffs securing more than $36 million in fees and expenses.

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