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Del. Justices Reject Meso s Bouchard-Related Bias Claims
Law360 (February 8, 2021, 4:30 PM EST) The Delaware Supreme Court refused Monday to revive Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC s lawsuit seeking to vacate a 2014 judgment in an intellectual property contract dispute with Roche, rejecting Meso s arguments that the judgment was tainted by now-Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard s representation of Roche at the time and of the presiding judge in an unrelated case.
In a 48-page per curiam opinion, the Delaware Supreme Court agreed with a trial court s finding that Vice Chancellor Donald Parsons wasn t obligated to recuse himself from presiding over Meso and Roche s contract dispute when Bouchard, who was counsel for Roche at the time, began representing the vice.
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Roche Calls Meso s Bouchard-Related Bias Claims Weak
Law360 (December 9, 2020, 7:50 PM EST) Roche told the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday it should reject Meso Scale Diagnostics LLC s weak and thin arguments in its bid to reverse the Chancery Court s toss of a suit seeking to vacate a 2014 ruling allegedly tainted by now-Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard s work on that case.
During an oral argument held virtually, counsel for Roche Diagnostics GmbH took aim at Meso s appeal of a ruling by Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III that rejected Meso s claim that now-retired Vice Chancellor Donald Parsons should have recused himself from deciding a prior intellectual property dispute between the companies because of alleged.