Litigation

Recent Decisions Maintain Stability in Delaware Corporate Law
Editor?s Note: This post comes to us from Bradley R. Aronstam and David E. Ross, partners in the Business Law Group of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP. This post is based on an article that originally appeared in Vol...

Duty Of Disclosure: Delaware Chancellor Further Limits Availability of Damages
Duty Of Disclosure: Delaware Chancellor Further Limits Availability of Damages From Travis Laster: Last week, Delaware Chancellor Chandler - in In re Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. - granted summary judgment in favor of three directors who were alleged to have breached...

Different Fiduciary Obligations for LLC Managers and Corporate Directors
Lewis Lazarus recently posted Directors Designated By Investors Owe Fiduciary Duties to the Company as a Whole and Not to the Designating Investor at the Delaware Business Litigation Report...

Delaware Chancellor Dismisses Claim that Directors Sold Subsidiary in Bad Faith
Delaware Chancellor Dismisses Claim that Directors Sold Subsidiary in Bad Faith From Travis Laster: In McPadden v. Sidhu, Delaware Chancellor Chandler recently granted a motion to dismiss claims against the outside directors of i2 Corporation for allegedly selling a significant...

Directors Of Corporation Cannot Sue Derivatively If They Are Not Shareholders
In the corporate litigation field, the Delaware Supreme Court has held that directors of Delaware corporations, who are not shareholders of the corporation, cannot assert derivative claims against fellow directors...

Fogel v. U.S. Energy Systems Inc and Limits on the Authority of Independent Directors
Delaware courts may provide incentive for boards to have independent directors but they are not about to actually let them run the company.  In a series of recent cases, the Delaware courts have gone out of their way to limit the authority of these directors...

Torts
Introduction to Torts

Ivy Lawn
alleging employees informed grave robbers of valuables buried with loved ones.

Boat Crash
Police officer awarded $100,000 settlement after crashing into bridge piling while on duty.

New York City
$1.5 million settlement after a family of four was killed by an off duty drunken police officer.

Motorcycle Cop Accident
Erie police officer awarded $150,000 workers compensation settlement after sustaining serious injuries while on duty.