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

Patently O

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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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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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Cooper’s activities in Georgia had no connection to McCall’s claims against Cooper, meaning that Georgia courts lacked “specific jurisdiction” over Cooper. Goertz , 21-442.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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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Retail Woes: A Running List of Fashion & Retail Bankruptcies

The Fashion Law

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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