/delaware?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Delaware Copyright 2025 À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. en-US Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:32:56 +0000 /delaware/articles/2379375?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2379375 A special master in Delaware federal court has recommended sanctioning Envestnet for failing to properly preserve data from a piece of log management software as part of a suit, accusing it of scheming to steal rival fintech software company FinApps' trade secrets. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:19:54 +0000 /delaware/articles/2379192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2379192 Attorneys for seven states and Washington, D.C., have told a Delaware bankruptcy court that firefighting foam maker Kidde-Fenwal Inc. failed to meet court-directed disclosure statement requirements for its latest, fifth-amended Chapter 11 liquidation plan and called for rejection of the document. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:58:14 +0000 /delaware/articles/2379329?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2379329 The Third Circuit Wednesday wiped out Maiden Holdings' summary judgment win over investors accusing the reinsurance company of misrepresenting its underwriting and risk management practices, saying the district court misapplied U.S. Supreme Court precedent regarding the materiality of withheld information. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:39:47 +0000 /delaware/articles/2379350?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2379350 The U.S. government has failed to show why names and contact information of certain U.S. Department of the Army employees should be hidden in an mRNA vaccine developer's $5 billion patent suit over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines, a federal judge has found. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:19:34 +0000 /delaware/articles/2379310?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2379310 A former employee for Honeywell will seek Third Circuit review of a New Jersey federal judge's decision to toss a proposed class action alleging Honeywell violated federal benefits law by putting 401(k) forfeitures toward employer-side contribution obligations instead of defraying administrative expenses. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:21:24 +0000 /delaware/articles/2377902?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2377902 In Walker v. SEPTA, the Third Circuit reinstated a former Philadelphia bus driver's Family and Medical Leave Act lawsuit, finding the notice standard is not particularly onerous, which underscores employers' responsibilities to recognize and document leave requests, and to avoid penalizing workers for protected absences, say Fiona Ong and Leah Shepherd at Ogletree. Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:16:55 +0000 /delaware/articles/2379117?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2379117 Bankrupt jewelry chain Claire's announced plans Wednesday to sell intellectual property and some of its U.S. stores to a private holding company for $104 million in cash as well as other inducements. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:30:09 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378891?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378891 A magistrate in the Delaware Chancery Court has entered an order for contempt and sanctions, as well as a receivership, against private equity firm 777 Partners in its former chief financial officer's suit seeking advancement of legal fees in connection with a fraud investigation and multiple lawsuits related to the company's business. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:17:46 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378915?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378915 A Delaware chancellor has certified a class of Inovalon Holdings common stockholders who challenged the $7.3 billion go-private sale of the company to Nordic Capital and claimed Inovalon failed to disclose that the investors who bought it paid $400 million in fees to its financial adviser before the transaction.  Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:47:09 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378828?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378828 Four insurers jointly have agreed to dismiss a complaint, counterclaims and crossclaims focused on insurer risks and liability related to social media site Discord Inc., now the target of multiple suits accusing the site of facilitating child exposure to graphic content, abuse and exploitation. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:45:55 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378854 In sometimes chiding language, a Delaware vice chancellor ruled on Tuesday a New York federal judge will go first in a multicourt battle over Delaware-chartered insurance brokerage Marsh McLennan's challenges to employee defections allegedly orchestrated by Howden Holdings Ltd. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:40:01 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378850?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378850 A man sentenced to 10 years in prison after police found guns and drugs in his car during a traffic stop can't have the evidence suppressed even though the police engaged him in small talk unrelated to the stop, the Third Circuit affirmed Tuesday, finding that the rapport-building conversation was warranted. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:25:37 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378728?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378728 The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a Louisiana federal court's axing of claims in a Wilco Marsh Buggies and Draglines Inc.'s excavator and dredging vehicle patent, saying they were invalid because the product detailed in the patent was sold in the 1990s. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:51:12 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378756?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378756 An insurer owes nearly $715,000 for two separate losses a credit union incurred after a crime ring hacked a number of its interactive teller machines and a counterfeit check fraud scheme affected multiple account holders, the credit union said in a lawsuit removed to Delaware federal court. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:30:54 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378787?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378787 A Connecticut-based title insurance company and its subsidiary have argued in a court filing that a former board member lacks standing under Delaware and Florida law to assert fiduciary duty claims against fellow directors, the companies and their in-house counsel. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:38:42 +0000 /delaware/articles/2376960?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2376960 After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:15:15 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378600?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378600 Linqto and its unsecured creditors committee told a Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday that they have come to an agreement to give customers the chance for in-kind payment in the investment platform's Chapter 11 plan. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:06:53 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378100 The Trump administration urged a Rhode Island federal judge to toss claims that massive cuts to the Health and Human Services Department violate the U.S. Constitution and usurp congressional authority, arguing the state plaintiffs don't have the authority to dictate how the executive branch manages its personnel. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:01:21 +0000 /delaware/articles/2378397?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2378397 Executives and board members of Cencora Corp. tentatively settled a stockholder derivative suit for $111.25 million, VectoIQ board members reached a $6.3 million deal on stockholder claims over electric carmaker Nikola's prospects, and class attorneys who secured a $50 million derivative suit settlement saw their proposed 25% attorney fee cut by almost half. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:16:56 +0000 /delaware/articles/2377172?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /delaware/articles/2377172 A recent Federal Circuit order allowing a patent suit to proceed despite similar claims being invalidated in an inter partes review underscores how fractured the patent litigation landscape has become, leading to critical nuances in how district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and Patent Trial and Appeal Board treat invalidity, says Jason Hoffman at BakerHostetler.