LegalReader

MAY 4, 2022

Employers in Delaware must follow the Fair Labor Standards Act, which clearly defines when employees are entitled to overtime pay.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 30, 2023

There has been much discussion of a classified document being found in his personal library in Wilmington, but there is a huge library of Biden documents sitting in the University of Delaware. The Bidens have long been accused of open influence peddling to garner millions of dollars and choice jobs or contracts for family members.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

When entering into contracts, parties commonly include forum selection clauses to govern future litigation between the parties. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has generally recognized that parties can bargain away these rights, including through forum selection clauses in contracts. emphasis added).

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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. These balances are usually non-negotiable because of the contract between the client and their health insurance.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A video game developer asked a Delaware bankruptcy court Friday to force cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading Ltd. to reject a tournament sponsorship contract with the debtor because of the damage its reputation has sustained in recent months.

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Law 360

MARCH 29, 2022

A Delaware vice chancellor dismissed a breach of contract suit filed by health care company Centene Corp. against data storage company Accellion Inc., finding a forum selection clause in their license agreement required the case be heard in California.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

completely unprecedented," telling Delaware's chancellor that only Twitter and Musk can seek specific contract performance. An attorney for tech mogul Elon Musk on Monday called a Twitter stockholder suit to force him to close on a $44 billion offer to buy Twitter Inc.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 28, 2022

after the social media giant sued to enforce his take-private offer in Delaware's contract-focused Court of Chancery, experts said Friday. In the end, tech mogul and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had no way out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Delaware Chancery Court has allowed Elon Musk to add Twitter's payment of a late-disclosed, $7.75 million severance payment to a security chief turned whistleblower to counterclaims allegedly justifying his walking away from a $44 billion contract to buy the social media giant.

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Law 360

JULY 2, 2024

A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association healthcare data licensee has sued for a Delaware Court of Chancery injunction that would bar a client from sharing a valuable database of BCBS medical and pharmacy claims with direct competitor Cigna Corp.

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Patently O

MARCH 15, 2022

But, the two parties had a prior agreement to litigate patent disputes in Delaware courts (i.e., The Delaware court (Judge Stark) sided denied preliminary relief and instead sided with the patent challenger – finding (1) evidence of breach was lacking and (2) the real irreparable harm would come from barring the IPR.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Delaware federal judge on Wednesday agreed to hand Mylan a win on a breach of contract claim from Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. over its gout drug Colcrys, agreeing with Mylan's interpretation of an earlier settlement agreement.

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Law 360

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Delaware Supreme Court recently ruled in AB Stabile v.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

By Faraz Siddiqui — In the Spring of 2021, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) threatened six drug companies with billions of dollars in penalties for not providing 340B discounts to covered entities that sell drugs through vast networks of contract pharmacies (more background on earlier posts ). A lot is at stake here.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 4, 2021

August 3, 2021) - The Delaware Court of Chancery recently explained under what circumstances dual claims will be allowed to proceed for both breach of fiduciary duty. Wilmington, Del.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2021

Delaware, Hawaii and Idaho were among the 12 states and territories where no officers reportedly died. “As The FOP and other police groups didn’t know of statistics indicating how many officers contracted COVID on the job , or how many may have spread the virus, reports Business Insider.

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Law 360

JANUARY 14, 2025

Recent Delaware earnout litigation illustrates the need for careful drafting and proactive planning to avoid later divergent interpretations of the signed contract, and a series of drafting tips can help, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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Law 360

JULY 7, 2023

in Delaware's Court of Chancery, alleging breach of contract and seeking damages and contract reformation. Interdealer municipal bond and securities brokerage Hartfield Titus & Donnelly LLC has sued MarketAxess Holdings Inc.

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Law 360

JANUARY 17, 2025

A beverage bottler's lawsuit seeking damages tied to sports-drink startup Prime Hydration's alleged failure to honor a production contract has come up empty in Delaware's Court of Chancery, with aThursdayrulingthatthe complaint never tapped into the court's equity jurisdiction.

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Law 360

JUNE 10, 2024

Nearly all the allegations of fraud, breach of contract and related claims lodged by healthcare technology venture Trifecta Multimedia Holdings Inc. against acquirer WCG Clinical Services have survived dismissal challenges and will move toward trial, a Delaware vice chancellor ruled Monday.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Delaware Chancery Courts recent ruling in Salama v. Simon resolved statutory ambiguity in favor of boards seeking authorized share increases, and has important implications for litigators presenting extrinsic evidence in support of contract or statutory interpretation arguments, says Robin Wechkin at Sidley.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Contract educational institution bookstore operator Akademos Inc. was fairly sold in December 2020 under terms that left common stockholders wiped out, a Delaware vice chancellor has ruled after a four-day trial that both appraised the company's stock and judged the deal's fairness.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Stockholders who sued Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the company's board in Delaware's Court of Chancery for "blindly" approving a multibillion-dollar, Bezos-controlled launch contract for a new satellite-based internet service struggled for enough altitude Tuesday to clear defense dismissal challenges.

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Law 360

APRIL 4, 2024

A Delaware federal judge chastised Caterpillar Inc. ahead of trial in a series of orders mostly siding with claims from a defunct construction equipment supplier accusing the company of pressuring an online auctioneer to break an important contract with the would-be competitor.

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Law 360

JANUARY 15, 2025

Gilead Sciences and the federal government have agreed to dismiss all claims and counterclaims in a yearslong intellectual property and contract battleover HIV prevention drugs Truvada and Descovy, according to stipulations of voluntary dismissal filed Wednesday in both the Federal Circuit and Delaware federal court.

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Law 360

JANUARY 6, 2025

Verizon's real estate unit asked a Delaware vice chancellor to approve a $1.15 million attorney fee request for beating a Connecticut real estate investment firm's breach of contract suit, rejecting the losing side's call for offsets covering fees that Verizon said were never incurred.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Jurors headed to a second day of deliberations late Thursday after nearly four days of trial in Delaware federal court on Softbank Group subsidiary Arm Ltd.'s breached a protective contract for microprocessor core technology licensing agreements. s claims that Qualcomm Inc. and Nuvia Inc.

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Law 360

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lannett Pharmaceuticals hit generic drugmaker Areva Pharmaceuticals with a contract suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Thursday, accusing Areva of breaching their 2022 agreement that gave Lannett exclusive rights to distribute Areva's injectable anticancer drug after Lannett emerged from a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Walgreens is urging a Delaware federal judge to rethink his decision enforcing a $987 million arbitral award to a lab testing and diagnostics company in a dispute over COVID-19 tests, arguing Tuesday that he ignored that the arbitrator "invented" language in the contract to arrive at his conclusion.

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Mondaq

APRIL 25, 2022

When cryptocurrency is the consideration to be paid on a contract and the contract is breached, how should a court calculate damages? That was the issue confronted by Judge Wallace in a case.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday awarded $130 million to former shareholders of biopharmaceutical company Syntimmune in their breach of contract fight against AstraZeneca PLC unit Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.,

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Law 360

AUGUST 12, 2021

A Delaware vice chancellor on Thursday refused to dismiss a challenge to a $525 million deal in 2018 for OnCourse Learning Corp., noting that sellers cannot use a clause in a contract obtained by fraud to "eviscerate" buyer claims that the entire contract is an instrument of fraud.

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Law 360

JULY 17, 2024

public has sued for breach of contract in Delaware's Court of Chancery, alleging the company is refusing to issue more than 9.54 A Florida-based hedge fund that invested in a blank-check company that took battery company Solidion Technology Inc. million shares of stock that are due under pre-merger agreements.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

faces a shareholder's breach of contract suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery alleging it failed to honor certain terms of its February deal to buy the meal replacement maker. The consumer packaged goods holding company that now owns Soylent Nutrition Inc.

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Law 360

MARCH 18, 2024

The owner of rights and trademarks of Singer sewing machine products has sued its North American distributor in Delaware's Court of Chancery, seeking a court declaration that it could end their contract because the distributor failed to meet minimum billing and royalties requirements.

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Law 360

JANUARY 18, 2023

A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent ruling in Hertz, disallowing claims for make-whole premiums and post-petition interest at the contract rate, could be relied upon by debtors to sidestep those provisions, and potentially provide higher recoveries for equity holders, say Theresa Foudy and Alexander Severance at MoFo.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

on Monday succeeded in its bid to pause a contract dispute with the buyer of one of its business units so that Delaware's Court of Chancery can decide whether Western Union's former in-house counsel, now the buyer's chief legal officer, can remain involved in the litigation. The Western Union Co.

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