JURIST - Delaware

Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed a same-sex marriage bill into law on Tuesday, making Delaware the eleventh US state to legalize same-sex marriage, and the second to do so in the past week. Markell signed the bill shortly after a 12-9 vote in the Delaware State Senate Tuesday afternoon. Introdu....... [more]

A jury in the US District Court for the District of Delaware found Thursday that Apple Inc. infringed on patents held by MobileMedia Ideas LLC. The three patents at issue in the case relate to the camera phone, call handling and call rejecting. The court has not scheduled when it will determine dam....... [more]

Lululemon Athletica Inc. (Lululemon), a Canadian clothing company, settled a lawsuit on Tuesday with Calvin Klein Inc. over alleged patent infringement of yoga pants. A spokesperson for Lululemon said that the terms of the settlement are confidential. After both companies agreed to settle, Lululemo....... [more]

HTC and Apple announced Saturday that they have reached a global settlement dismissing all patent lawsuits between the parties. The conflict between the two companies arose after Apple initially filed suit against HTC in the US District Court for the District of Delaware in March 2010 alleging that....... [more]

JURIST Guest Columnist Louise Lau, University of Texas School of Law Class of 2013, analyzes the effects that Lululemon's design patent lawsuit against Calvin Klein might have on the fashion industry...In an industry that has traditionally accepted inspiration and appropriation as the status quo, Lu....... [more]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Delaware on Thursday struck down the Delaware Chancery Court procedure allowing for closed-door arbitrations for large business disputes. In a 26-page decision Judge Mary McLaughlin held that the Chancery Court's rule allowing parties to opt for....... [more]

On July 16, 2010, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled that HTC infringed Apple's patents after the company filed a complaint against Apple relating to cell phones using Android operating systems. A year prior, Apple had filed suits against HTC alleging patent infringement in the US D....... [more]

On July 2, 2011, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed into law H6103, which legalized same-sex unions in the state. The bill, modeled on bills already passed in Illinois, Delaware and Hawaii, defines a civil union as a "legal union between two individuals of the same sex" who are consenting a....... [more]

New York City on Monday filed a derivative suit in Delaware Chancery Court against Wal-Mart alleging that both officers and board members of the company breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders by improperly handling reports of bribery that occurred in Mexico. The allegations of bribery and t....... [more]

6/6/2013: New Mexico AG stated that state law does not necessarily allow same-sex marriage 5/14/2013: Minnesota governor signed same-sex marriage bill into law 5/13/2013: Minnesota senate approved same-sex marriage bill 5/9/2013: Minnesota House approved same-sex marriage bill 5/7/2013: Delaware....... [more]

JURIST Contributing Editor Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law, joined by JURIST Guest Columnists Michael Duff of the University of Wyoming College of Law, Craig Jackson of Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law and Leland Ware of the University of Delaware....... [more]