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  • Sunline Commercial Carriers, Inc. v. CITGO Petroleum Corp.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-27
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Energy | Transportation
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael F. Bonkowski and Nicholas J. Brannick, Cole Schotz P.C., Wilmington, DE ; Ross A. Mortillaro, Stinson Leonard Street LLP, Dallas, TX for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Mary F. Dugan, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John Zavitsanos, Debora Si-mon Pacholder and Edward Goolsby, Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing, P.C., Houston, TX for defendant.
    Case Number: D68508

    The parties' contractual agreements contained inconsistencies, and these ambiguities precluded summary judgment.

  • Silverman v. Silverman

    Publication Date: 2019-03-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Gagne and Achille C. Scache, Giordano, Delcollo, Werb & Gagne, LLC, Wilmington, DE for husband.
    for defendant: Shawn Dougherty, Weik, Nitsche & Dougherty, LLC, Wilmington, DE for wife.
    Case Number: D68491

    Husband's financial disclosure met the statutory standard for a valid premarital agreement, so the family court erred in refus-ing to enforce the agreement based on unconscionability.

  • Walker v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-03-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie Blaisdell, Assistant Public Defender, Dover, DE, for Kevin Walker.
    for defendant: John Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Dover, DE for the state.
    Case Number: D68454

    An administrative search did not comply with the basic procedure, so defendant was entitled to suppression of the evidence which resulted from that search.

  • Ayala v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-02-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Expert Witnesses
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernard J. O'Donnell and James O. Turner, Jr., Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for Javier Ayala
    for defendant: Carolyn S. Hake, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state
    Case Number: D68477

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting a chemist's results from hypergeometric testing.

  • Wong v. Broughton

    Publication Date: 2019-02-20
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua H. Meyeroff, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for Peter J. Wong, M.D. and Dedicated to Women OB-GYN, P.A.
    for defendant: Bruce L. Hudson and Ben T. Castle of Hudson & Castle Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for Monica Brough-ton and Amari M. Broughton-Fleming.
    Case Number: D68470

    Expert medical testimony in this medical malpractice case did not rely on res ipsa loquitur and was properly admitted into evidence.

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  • KT4 Partners LLC v. Palantir Tech. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-02-13
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bartholomew J. Dalton and Michael C. Dalton, Dalton & Assoc., P.A., Wilmington, DE; Barry S. Simon, Jonathan B. Pitt and Stephen L. Wohlgemuth, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Kevin M. Gallagher and Kelly L. Freund, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilming-ton, DE; Kevin J. Orsini and Rory A. Leraris, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D68458

    The chancery court abused its discretion in refusing to allow a shareholder to inspect emails under a §220 books and records, request, because the corporation did not have any formal documents relating to the amend-ment of an investors' rights agreement.

  • Urquhart v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-02-06
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eugene J. Maurer, Jr. and Elise K. Wolpert of Eugene J. Maurer, Jr. P.A., Wilmington, DE for Everett Ur-quhart.
    for defendant: Abby Adams, Department of Justice, Georgetown, DE for the state.
    Case Number: D68453

    Criminal defendant's right to assistance of counsel in a serious felony trial required more than the mere pres-ence of a defense attorney the day of trial.

  • Oxbow Carbon & Minerals Holdings, Inc. v. Crestview-Oxbow Acquisition, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-01-30
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Mining and Resources
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen C. Norman and Jaclyn C. Levy, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; David B. Hennes, C. Thomas Brown, Adam M. Harris and Elizabeth D. Johnston, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs Oxbow Carbon & Mineral Holdings, Ingraham Investments, William I. Koch and Oxbow Carbon Investment Co. LLC. Kenneth J. Nachbar, Thomas W. Briggs, Jr. and Richard Li, Morris, Nich-ols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; R. Robert Popeo, Michael S. Gardener and Breton Leo-ne-Quick, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., Boston, MA for plaintiff
    for defendant: Oxbow Carbon LLC. Kevin G. Abrams, Michael A. Barlow and April M. Kirby, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brock E. Czeschin, Matthew D. Perri and Sarah A. Galetta, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael B. Carlinsky, Chad Johnson, Jennifer Barrett, Silpa Maruri, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Christopher Landau, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sul-livan, LLP, Washington, DC for defendant Crestview-Oxbow Acquisition. J. Clayton Athey and John G. Day, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Dale C. Christensen, Jr and Michael B. Weitman, Seward & Kissell, LLP, New York, NY for defendant Load Line Capital
    Case Number: D68441

    The plain language of an LLC agreement governed the parties' dispute, and the trial court improperly implied a cove-nant where no contractual gap existed. Affirmed in part, reversed in part.

  • Parker v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-01-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Santino Ceccotti and Bernard J. O'Donnell, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for applel-lant.
    for defendant: Andrew J. Vella, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    Case Number: D68442

    The court vacated defendant's sentence because it constituted a double jeopardy violation. Remanded for resentencing.

  • Mills v. State

    Publication Date: 2019-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Strine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernard J. O'Donnell, Office of Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Maria T. Knoll, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D68440

    The multiplicity doctrine precluded separate charges for resisting arrest for each law enforcement officer involved in an arrest and required only one charge for an arrest attempt.