Well I decided to give it a shot and I went on the Verizon chat thing and asked if they knew if the phone was going to be delayed at all because the HTC/Apple situation, because I needed to know if I should upgrade right now or later. I have no idea if they guy actually knew anything, but this is what he told me: "As of present time, the situations between the two companies has not taken affect, so the phones as of right now are scheduled when they are scheduled unless something happens within now and then."
I'm going to try calling later, and asking a few other people on the chat service and see if there's any discrepancies from what they say.