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Whether Fraud on the Court or “Titillating Gossip”, Delaware Inquiry to Resume This Week

April 9, 2023

For a few months, a quiet had settled over the “Series of Extraordinary Events” unfolding from the courtroom of Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly. New cases associated with IP Edge LLC, the Texas monetization firm linked to multiple plaintiffs whose compliance with that court’s April 2022 standing orders had been under scrutiny, came to a halt—first in Delaware but then nationwide. Those suits already before Judge Connolly sat stayed, apparently while one of the plaintiffs, Nimitz Technologies LLC, considered whether to take “an issue which has never been addressed by any court” to the top one, the US Supreme Court. Now, Judge Connolly has ordered counsel for Nimitz to appear before him this week; Nimitz has produced a trove of documents for Judge Connolly’s inspection; another IP Edge-linked plaintiff has tried to exit Delaware via amended covenants not to sue; and still other such plaintiffs continue to contest orders requiring them to produce their own troves of documents. Quiet no more.


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