A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Monday criticized the state’s tactics in trying to force an Illinois-based company to comply with an unclaimed-property audit, saying it was trying to have the constitutionality of the state’s escheat laws litigated in two courts at the same time.

Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III, in an 11-page order, said an earlier stay on the state’s enforcement action should remain in place while Univar Inc. proceeds with its federal court  challenge to the state’s ability to subpoena corporate records going back decades.