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Carter Page Says Errors Wrongly Sank Del. Defamation Suit
Law360 (April 29, 2021, 7:51 PM EDT) Former Donald Trump campaign adviser Carter Page urged Delaware s Supreme Court on Thursday to resurrect his defamation suit targeting the parent of Yahoo News and HuffPost, saying that accumulated small errors by a lower court judge wrongly scuttled his case.
It was Page s latest attempt to keep alive claims that Oath Inc., a unit of Verizon Communications Inc. now called Verizon Media, defamed him with publication of 11 online articles. All were said to have had references to material in the Steele dossier probe of alleged ties and known contacts between Trump s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government including.
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Texas Atty Tags $15K Chancery Sanction As Free Speech Hit
Law360 (April 7, 2021, 8:56 PM EDT) Counsel for a Texas attorney whose allegedly threatening out-of-court email to a Chancery Court opponent earned a nearly $15,000 legal fee sanction last year told Delaware s Supreme Court on Wednesday that the penalty crossed a free speech line without justification or due process.
David L. Finger of Finger & Slanina LLP, counsel to Houston attorney Thomas L. Hunt of Thomas L. Hunt & Associates, told the full five-member court that his client s email to John L. Reed of DLA Piper LLP never jeopardized the administration of justice in the case, in which the two were on opposing sides. Prior to the disputed.
The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday said a trial court must vacate decisions that disqualified Cozen O'Connor as counsel to an insurer that sued to invalidate a life policy, saying the firm's reputation could unfairly suffer if the disqualification stands.
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The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a biopharmaceutical company's $82 million jury trial win in a suit alleging Express Scripts Inc. fraudulently skewed its revenues to close a multimillion-dollar acquisition, ruling the trial court gave jurors an "erroneous" instruction and a new trial is warranted.