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Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Discovery Rule Applied to Claim Against Accountant
In The Island Farm, Inc. v. Master, Sidlow and Associates, P.A., Del. Super. (Sept. 20, 2007), read opinion here, the Delaware Superior Court denied a motion for summary judgment filed…
Chicago IP Litigation
Court Waxes Eloquent on Discovery
Flentye v. Kathrein, No. 06 C 3492, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Oct 2, 2007) (Cole, Mag. J.).* Judge Cole continued defendants' motion to compel for one week because defendants had…
Chicago IP Litigation
Court Allows New Discovery Weeks Before Trial
Trading Technologies Int'l, Inc. v. eSpeed, Inc., No. 04 C 5312, 2007 WL 2566291 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 29, 2007) (Moran, Sen. J.). Judge Moran denied plaintiff Trading Technologies' ("TT") motion…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Compels Discovery of Related Party Transactions
In re Tyson Foods, Inc., 2007 WL 2685011 (Del. Ch., Sept. 11, 2007), read opinion here. This is a classic Chancery Court discovery dispute that is addressed as surgically as…
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California Supreme Court Finds Reinsurance Information Outside the Scope of Discovery Rules
Recently, the California Supreme Court held that the alleged victims of child abuse by certain priests in the Catholic Church will not have access to the reinsurance information of the…
Chicago IP Litigation
Court Has Enough of Long Fact Discovery Process
Trading Techs. Int'l., Inc. v. eSpeed, Inc., No 04 C 5312, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Aug. 17, 2007) (Moran, Sen. J.).* Judge Moran denied plaintiff Trading Technologies' ("TT") motion to…
Chicago IP Litigation
Interrogatory Responses Supplemented by Deposition Testimony
Fast Food Gourmet, Inc. v. Little Lady Foods, Inc., No. 05 C 6022, 2007 WL 2156665 (N.D. Ill. Jul. 26, 2007) (Cole, M.J.) Judge Cole granted in part defendant Little…
Chicago IP Litigation
Untimely Protectiver Order Motion is Denied
Faruki v. Eagle Seven, No. 06 C 7125, Min. Order (N.D. Ill. Aug. 10, 2007) (Mason, J.). Magistrate Judge Mason denied plaintiffs' motion for a protective order to prevent a…
Delaware Patent Litigation Report
Special Discovery Master’s discovery rulings were overturned
LG. Philips LCD Co., Ltd., v. Tatung Co., et al., No. 04-343-JJF, July 13, 2007. Farnan, J. Exceptions to discovery rulings relating to willfulness and advice of counsel defenses were…
TortsProf Blog
Airlines Seek to Depose FBI, CIA in 9/11 Litigation
CNN reports (via DowJones) that Boeing, American, United, USAirways and others filed suits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York yesterday against the FBI and…