Request for Opn of the Justices
May 21, 2009
The Justices are entertaining a question from the State as to whether sports betting, as passed by the State legislature recently, is allowable in the State of Delaware.
May 21, 2009
Case Description: Bruce Banther was convicted in 2008 for Murder in the First Degree and Possession of a Deadly Weapon During the Commission of a Felony. In Banthers first jury trial, completed in October 1998, Banther was acquitted of Conspirac...
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May 21, 2009
Appeal of the following judgment: The Court of Chancery found that the failure to disclose the manner in which the consideration offered in a short-form merger was determined, as well as the failure to attach the current and correct version of Del...
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LAMPERS v. Taub (Atmel)
May 19, 2009
This shareholder class action challenges the validity of Atmel's board of directors' extension of a poison pill that allegedly made the poison pill's triggers vague and unascertainable.In October, 2008, ON Semiconductor Corp. (ONNN) and Microchip ...
May 11, 2009
Five day bench trial.From CVN's coverage of prior hearings in this litigation...August 31 hearing on defendant's motion to enforce discovery orders. CVN covered prior hearings in this litigation. The household appliance company Applica put itself...
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May 11, 2009
Hearing on AT&T's motion to dismiss under the Federal Arbitration ActThe hearing considered (1) whether a contractual arbitration right was waived when the defendants moved to stay the action when filed, rather than objecting to jurisdiction, ...
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May 11, 2009
While attempting to exit a parking lot, the defendant rear-ended a vehicle driven by the plaintiff, a certified nurse assistant. The collision occurred at a velocity of between six and 11 miles per hour. The plaintiff allegedly suffered a ruptur...
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Brown vs. RJ Reynolds
May 11, 2009
This Engle-progeny tobacco case involves a life-long smoker who allegedly started smoking when he was 12 years old. He died of lung cancer and esophageal cancer. The plaintiff claimed that the smoker was addicted to cigarettes that contained nic...
May 11, 2009
An appendectomy patient who had been taking the anti-coagulant Coumadin (due to a prior heart valve replacement) died after the attending surgeon allegedly overlooked internal bleeding before completing the operation.The plaintiff also alleged tha...
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May 8, 2009
6-17 contempt hearing.From "The American Lawyer" - "At the hearing Thursday, Chaney dismissed from the bench two tort cases against Dole and Dow Chemical, ruling that Los Angeles plaintiffs lawyer Juan Dominguez and co-counsel in Nicaragua committ...
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May 8, 2009
A Texas jury will hear a multibillion dollar claim by Huntsman Corp. that two of the world's largest banks, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, scuttled its proposed mergers with Hexion Chemical and Basell Holdings, NV. Credit Suisse and Deutsche Ban...
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