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Firms Lose Serial Bid To Delay Merger Earn-Out Trial In Del.
Law360 (June 1, 2021, 4:20 PM EDT) A Delaware Superior Court judge has rejected a bid by Womble Bond Dickinson and The Wheaton Law Group to delay an upcoming trial over a $10 million earn-out related to software company Dematic s merger with Reddwerks, expressing displeasure with serial attempts to postpone the trial amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a brief order on Friday, Superior Court Judge Abigail M. LeGrow denied Dematic Corp. s bid to postpone a bench trial set to begin on June 7 after Womble Bond Dickinson LLP and The Wheaton Law Group Inc. asserted in a court filing that an in-person trial could soon instead be.
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Fox News files a motion to dismiss Dominion’s defamation suit over 2020 election coverage.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, disputing the results of the election won by Joseph R. Biden Jr.Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
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Fox News Media, the Rupert Murdoch-controlled cable group, filed a motion on Tuesday to dismiss a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against it in March by Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company that accused Fox News of propagating lies that ruined its reputation after the 2020 presidential election.
The Dominion lawsuit and a similar defamation claim brought in February by another election company, Smartmatic, have been widely viewed as test cases in a growing legal effort to battle disinformation in the news media. And it is another byproduct of former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless attempts to undermine President Biden’s clear victory.
Agriculture giant Syngenta Corp. has asked a Delaware state court to declare more than 130 insurers on the hook for mounting injury claims stemming from allegations the herbicide paraquat in Syngenta products caused Parkinson's disease, kidney disease and other ailments.