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August 20, 2026
An investment executive has sued in the Delaware Chancery Court to undo what he calls a "corporate coup d'etat" that allegedly stripped him of his power over an investment company by changing its bylaws without the supermajority vote he says was required.
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August 20, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday agreed to approve a trio of sales that will bring in $52 million in cash for Sangamo Therapeutics, after attorneys representing the life sciences group told the court a competitive Chapter 11 auction ended with four winning bids worth over $238 million.
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August 20, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday said he would consider ed-tech company Conscious Content Media's request for $3 million in additional Chapter 11 financing next week, after the creditors committee pushed back against the debtor's expedited schedule and said it needed more time to review the request.
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August 20, 2026
The Third Circuit has refused to revive a disbarred attorney's suit against two New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics lawyers, finding a district judge who recused herself from the case did not enter any substantive orders after granting the motion to recuse.
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August 20, 2026
The litigation trustee for wood-pellet producer Enviva Inc.'s Chapter 11 litigation trust has sued five former executives in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of secretly committing the company to more than $650 million in high-priced pellet purchases to boost short-term earnings and their chances of receiving bonuses, ultimately helping drive Enviva into bankruptcy.
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August 19, 2026
An asset management firm required to pay about $11 million in administrative fees and interest has asked the Third Circuit to reconsider its opinion upholding a doctrine under which arbitrators are barred from revisiting their prior decisions, saying it conflicts with binding Third Circuit precedent.
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August 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit declined Wednesday to save claims in a trio of 10x Genomics patents covering nucleic acid analysis methods, affirming decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that sided with Parse Biosciences Inc.'s obviousness challenges to the claims.
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August 19, 2026
Early investors in Footprint International Holdco Inc. have sued the sustainable packaging company, its directors and several institutional investors in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that insiders used a $500 million financing round to seize control of the company and strip longtime Class A investors of valuable stockholder rights.
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August 19, 2026
Former FTX and Alameda Research executives Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang have agreed to trading and registration bans, but will not face financial penalties, as part of deals with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to resolve fraud claims against them over their roles in the scheme that caused the crypto exchange and trading firm to collapse.
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August 19, 2026
The Republic of Azerbaijan has sued CNN in Delaware federal court, accusing the news network of defamation for reporting that Azerbaijan allowed Israeli forces to use its territory for military and intelligence operations against Iran during the ongoing war. Azerbaijan says the report was false, damaged the country's reputation and put its citizens at risk of retaliation.
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August 19, 2026
A suspended Pennsylvania attorney's attempt to expose an alleged conspiracy against him by Philadelphia public officials and private corporations has been stymied, with the Third Circuit upholding the dismissal of his complaint against dozens of defendants.
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August 19, 2026
A major U.S. distributor of horticultural and agricultural supplies, BFG Supply Co. LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, reporting between $100 million and $500 million in both assets and liabilities and seeking to sell all of its assets.
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August 18, 2026
The litigation trust created after Franchise Group Inc.'s bankruptcy on Tuesday sued the company's former CEO, advisers and others in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of carrying out a fraudulent take-private deal that caused more than $700 million in damages.
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August 18, 2026
The Third Circuit has ruled that the government was not required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the chain of custody for narcotics shown to a jury in a drug conspiracy and distribution case.
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August 18, 2026
A Capital One Financial Corp. stockholder has sued former Discover Financial Services directors and executives in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of allowing years of regulatory and compliance failures that caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses before Capital One acquired the credit card company.
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August 18, 2026
The Third Circuit scrapped Tuesday an early win handed to a Kutztown University professor who claimed she faced disability discrimination when her requests to teach remotely to manage an autoimmune condition were denied, ruling the lower court was too quick to resolve the case given the disputes at play.
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August 18, 2026
Delaware's Department of Justice wants the state's high court to undo a ruling allowing the ACLU to obtain Saul Ewing LLP invoices for work on a federal lawsuit over prison medical care, saying the decision puts "a new burden of proof on agencies" when dealing with public records requests.
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August 18, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving multibillion-dollar mergers, corporate oversight, founder control, SPAC litigation, commercial contracts and attorney fees.
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August 18, 2026
First Amendment experts said the New Jersey Supreme Court likely doomed the state's judicial privacy law when it found that the statute did not require those seeking damages to establish mental state, a decision that the Third Circuit hinted could result in the measure being struck down.
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August 17, 2026
Moderna Inc. has accused Arbutus Biopharma Corp. of turning a government contractor indemnification law "upside down" by arguing the COVID-19 vaccine supplier must face infringement litigation, while Arbutus says the government is wielding that relationship to dodge liability in two separate courts.
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August 17, 2026
JPMorgan Chase Bank cannot pursue state law trade secret claims against a data analytics company over the alleged misuse of credit card data supplied for regulatory purposes, with a Delaware federal judge ruling Monday that the bank still hasn't tied that conduct to Delaware or Ohio.
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August 17, 2026
Omnis Pleasants' parent company formally moved for dismissal of the West Virginia coal plant's Chapter 11 proceeding in Delaware, alleging the case was launched to gain an advantage in pending governance litigation with lenders tied to motivational speaker Tony Robbins.
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August 17, 2026
Saxena White PA and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP's client will lead a suit in Delaware Chancery Court alleging Skechers' founder and family used their majority voting power to push through the company's $9.4 billion take-private sale to private equity giant 3G Capital.
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August 17, 2026
A group of left-leaning states, including Massachusetts and California, asked a Texas federal court to toss a Federal Trade Commission suit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, saying Monday that the FTC's suit constitutes a "federal attack on state-regulated transgender healthcare."
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August 17, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted one petition for an America Invents Act patent review and rejected three others in his latest order on institution decisions.