Law 360

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A public opposition campaign complete with website and street signs has surfaced to oppose corporation and bar-backed legislation that would overhaul Delaware stockholder litigation rights and fee awards, intensifying an already unprecedented political fight that broke out last year over corporate governance concessions.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Citing in part aversion to "speculative litigation," Delaware's Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a ruling that kept in play potential stockholder damage claims in connection with the proposed reincorporation in Nevada of TripAdvisor and its parent, finding that business judgment deference should govern the court challenge.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 14, 2025

These discussions have frequently centered on one key element of corporate governance: fiduciary duties. Writing in 2002, Professor Perry Wallace argued that both the physical threats of climate change and the legal and economic impacts of societys response to those threats will inevitably implicate the heart of corporate governance.

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Law 360

MAY 17, 2023

corporate governance reforms and a $1.35 million attorney fee cleared the Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday, capping years of direct and derivative litigation over company failures to disclose negative drug trial results. A derivative lawsuit settlement that produced a package of Geron Corp.

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The Fashion Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In a filing last year, the plaintiffs asserted that the settlement reforms represent “a material and substantial improvement to TRR’s corporate governance and provide for new policies and procedures that will help to prevent a recurrence of the wrongdoing alleged” in the case at hand. The RealReal, Sanders Settlement.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Manufacturers may choose not to participate in this program, but the federal government will not reimburse for their outpatient drugs under Medicaid or Medicare Part B if they do not. A 2018 report by the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) found similar issues, as well as contract pharmacy noncompliance and poor federal oversight.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

1] In similar, the advancing principle of party autonomy [2] does not distinguish between corporations and other litigants on its operational level. The very fact that litigation involves a corporation does not seem prima facie to affect the identity of the applicable law rules. L 199) 40 (EC), art 4 (1). [2]

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InHouseOps

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bouchard, who recently retired from his position as Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, talks about his years in private practice in Delaware, his work on the court, and his new role at Paul Weiss. “My The Court of Chancery is a very unique court. It’s a very client-service-oriented court.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The recent Boeing shareholder litigation ruling comes amid an increase in Delaware Caremark decisions and attention to environmental, social and governance issues, which together will likely reorient boards' attention to core governance and how they monitor ESG risks, say Helene Banks and Elizabeth Sweeny at Cahill Gordon.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 6, 2023

In her recent response , Chairwoman Rosenworcel stated that the FCC’s ability to share the requested information was limited because the matter was subject to pending litigation, and because the proposed transaction remains active at the FCC.

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Chugh LLP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Drafting articles of incorporation: You must file these legal documents with your local government to establish your corporation. Creating bylaws: Bylaws establish the governing rules that your corporation will follow on a day-to-day basis. Bylaws govern a corporation’s operation and management. Corporate Governance.

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Patently O

MAY 17, 2021

The holding is important–repeated and specific threats of litigation by an out-of-state patentee can be sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction for a declaratory judgment action. [2] Trimble is a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in N.D. PerDiemCo LLC reads like my recent Civil Procedure final exam. [1] Sunnyvale).

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Patently O

JULY 16, 2024

the Federal Circuit addressed the scope of a district court’s inherent authority to investigate potential litigation misconduct. While I am not generally opposed to litigation finance, the Mavexar and IP Edge controversy highlights significant ethical concerns associated with the practice. Canary Connect, Inc. ,

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.

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Patently O

JANUARY 3, 2024

After an extended bit of patent litigation, the parties entered a 2014 settlement agreement that included a mutual covenant not to challenge each other’s patents again until 2021. District Court for the District of Delaware. The court here explained that its decision is purely one of contract interpretation under Delaware law.

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Blumberg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A corporation’s bylaws, also called company bylaws or just bylaws, are a legal document setting forth key rules and regulations governing the corporation’s day-to-day operations. Other states such as Delaware stipulate that the bylaws should include certain information. In most states, corporations must maintain bylaws.

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Chugh LLP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Governance. Governed by a board, which makes major decisions for the company. In the United States, companies are authorized and governed by the laws of each state, not by the federal government. It may be wise to incorporate in Delaware if you are seeking venture capital. C Corporations. Setting up your company.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Join members of the Judiciary and leading pharmaceutical patent litigators from brand name and generic drug companies at the American Conference Institute’s 8th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes Master Symposium taking place September 21-22, 2022, in Chicago! It’s an excellent opportunity to cross-pollinate ideas and strategies.”.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

1782(a), which permits litigants to invoke the authority of United States courts to render assistance in gathering evidence for use in ‘a foreign or international tribunal,’ encompasses private commercial arbitral tribunals, as the U.S. court on issues that touch upon international litigation, arbitration, and foreign sovereign relations.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 24, 2021

After New Jersey’s primacy, [1] Delaware established itself as the undisputed winner of the race, notwithstanding Nevada’s attempt to dethrone it. [2]. 15] Other areas in which the federal government stepped in are disclosure duties, accounting standards, independent audit committees, executive loans, fraud, and misconducts. [16].

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Vidal (No 23-135): This case challenges the “ Fintiv rule” that restricts the initiation of inter partes review in cases where parallel district court litigation is pending. and others in the District of Delaware. The PTO is changing its approach, but Intel argues that the Agency isn’t going far enough. AT&T (No.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Juniper, a Delaware corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California (for those who aren’t familiar with the area, that’s Silicon Valley), moved to transfer to the Northern District of California. Brazos has only two employees who work from Waco, one of whom is its in-house attorney responsible for litigation.

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Intelligize Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

That may be true, but it has never stopped bullies from popping up in places ranging from playgrounds to office cubicles to the highest reaches of government. Nobody likes a bully, or so the saying goes. Corporations can be bullies, too, leveraging their resources and influence to get the outcomes they desire.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

At the time of this writing, the federal government is set to run out of funding at the end of the day on March 11. Without another short-term continuing resolution or agreement to fund the government through September 30 , broadcasters’ ability to do business with the FCC could be affected.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. Nearly all of the state and local government plaintiffs filed their cases in state court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. In Delaware v. and non-U.S. 19-1189 (U.S.).

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The Fashion Law

JULY 27, 2021

billion deal that it reached with Tiffany in November 2019 swiftly prompted Tiffany to file suit , with the jeweler seeking an order from a Delaware Chancery Court judge requiring LVMH to “abide by its contractual obligation under the merger agreement to complete the transaction on the agreed terms.”

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Importantly, this ruling DOES NOT affect the legal obligation of entities formed in California, Nevada, or Delaware (among other states) to file their BIO Report within the timeframes specified in the chart below at this time.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

District Court for the District of Delaware is a two-pronged settlement in furtherance of which TRR has agreed to “pay $500,000 to the plaintiffs’ counsel for their fees and expenses,” subject to court approval, and has agreed not to oppose “service awards” for the two plaintiffs to the tune of $1,500. ” Now, before the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 10, 2025

She contended that governments like Colorado do not have a freer hand to regulate speech simply because the speaker is licensed or giving specialized advice. The question comes to the court in a medical-malpractice lawsuit filed in federal court in Delaware. Berk came to the Supreme Court in October, asking the justices to weigh in.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.

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Fordham Law News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In response, Twitter sued Musk on July 12 th in Delaware Chancery Court to enforce the Agreement, denying Musk’s claims and calling for specific performance and injunctive relief. [12] In so doing, Musk cited a lack of support for Twitter’s calculation that its spam/fake accounts represented less than 5% of all Twitter users. [7]

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s our vice president of governance and I have the great privilege of being the board president of the Institute. Looking at different types of practice, whether criminal litigator or transactional law, so on and so forth, as well as looking at the size of the firm. Absolutely.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Delaware v. 3): Whether unclaimed checks issued by MoneyGram Payment Systems should be returned to Delaware, where the company is headquartered, or instead are “money orders” or “similar written instruments” that under federal law should go to the states where they are purchased. Pennsylvania (Oct. Goertz (Oct.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 12, 2022

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Twitter, Inc is incorporated in Delaware, and has various subsidiaries around the world; Twitter International Company , for example, is incorporated in Ireland and responsible as data controller for users that live outside of the United States.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

Alex and Ani filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on June 9, citing assets and liabilities that both range from $100 million to $500 million. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on December 3. Bankruptcy Code in the District of Delaware.”

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Tyrance McCall, a Florida resident, filed suit in Georgia against Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, a Delaware corporation with its headquarters in Ohio, after a 2016 accident in Florida resulted from the alleged failure of a tire that Cooper manufactured in Arkansas. Goertz , 21-442. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C.

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