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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

Law 360

Controversy came to the Delaware Chancery Court as advocates panned the governor's nominee for a vacant seat. In the meantime, Lynn Tilton's management of Stila Styles got a makeover, a delivery from Amazon got a winning review, and a unanimous Delaware Supreme Court ruling may finally spell an end to TransPerfect litigation.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Insurers Say Del. Ruling Caps Redstone, NAI Coverage

Law 360

and Shari Redstone are pointing to a recent Delaware Supreme Court ruling as supporting their claim that common, underlying wrongful acts bar two separate multimillion-dollar coverage claims for litigation costs in 2016 and 2019 focused on control of CBS and Viacom. Four insurers for National Amusements Inc.

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Reflections from Columbia’s Forum on Climate-Related Fiduciary Duty

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Former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court [ Video available here ] Panel 3: For Whose Benefit? For example, in the weeks leading up to the Colloquium, a Texas District Court ruled in Spence v. Strine, Jr., Climate Corporate Governance after “McRitchie v. American Airlines , that American Airlines, Inc.

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Del. Justices Urged Not To Make Key Precedent A 'Paper Tiger'

Law 360

stockholders have told the Delaware Supreme Court that "four decades of carefully crafted jurisprudence" would be upended and a key entire fairness standard rendered "a paper tiger" if the justices let stand a trial court ruling in litigation over Tesla's purchase of SolarCity. Attorneys for Tesla Inc.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. In Delaware v. and non-U.S.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2023: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

The Court answered this question in the affirmative. More importantly, the court considered the requirement of a “real connecting link” in the context of Art. This restrictive reading of Section 1782 is a welcome end to a long-standing circuit split among courts in the United States. 7(1) of the Brussels Ibis Regulation.

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