• Hudson v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Griffiths
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond D. Armstrong, Office of Defense Services, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian L. Arban, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 303, 2022

    Court upheld the introduction of expert testimony regarding probabilistic genotyping analysis where the testing had undergone validation studies and peer review and enjoyed general acceptance by the scientific community and many other courts.

  • Employers Ins. Co. of Wasau v. First State Orthopaedics, P.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-22
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; Andrew Hatchett, Tiffany Powers, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA for appellants.
    for defendant: John S. Spadaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan L. Parshall, Lauren A. Cirrinicione, Murphy & Landon, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 27, 2023D

    Trial court erred in concluding that medical provider had standing to challenge lawfulness of insurer's old billing codes under the workers' compensation law, where the insurer had switched to a new billing code system prior to, and independent of, the provider's lawsuit and any prospective declaratory relief would not redress the claimed injury.

  • Salt Meadows Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. v. Zonko Builders, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Damages
    Industry: Construction | Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Seitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew J. Rifino, Kate R. Buck, Shannon D. Humiston, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Colin M. Shalk, Kenneth M. Doss, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 94, 2023

    Trial court properly granted remittitur where jury verdict including inflated repair costs was based on testimony from witnesses unqualified to testify about inflation and increased expenses.

  • El-Abbadi v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole M. Walker, Santino Ceccotti, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Kathryn J. Garrison, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 364, 2022

    Defendant was not entitled to lesser-included offense instruction where there was no set of facts that would permit acquittal on the charged offense but could support conviction on a lesser-included offense.

  • Lebanon County Employees' Ret. Fund v. Collis

    Publication Date: 2024-01-01
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Closic, Eric J. Juray, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Gregory V. Varallo, Andrew Blumberg, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
    for defendant: Stephen C. Norman, Jennifer C. Wasson, Tyler J. Leavengood, Christopher D. Renaud, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Doluisio, Brittany Zoll, Christopher J. Merken, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Matthew L. Larrabee, Hayoung Park, Julia Markham-Cameron, Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Michael D. Blanchard, Amelia Pennington, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA for appellees.

    Case Number: 22, 2023

    Chancery court erred in adopting West Virginia court's factual findings through judicial notice where such facts were disputed by the parties to the present action.

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  • Elzufon, Austin, Tarlov & Mondell, P.A., v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2023-12-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon R. Herling, Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP, New Castle, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Tabatha L. Castro, The Castro Firm, Inc., Newark, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 47, 2023

    Treating physician's causation opinion, though not based on objective medical records, was not improperly speculative where the physician would be familiar with the potential complications of claimant's surgery and could conclude that her subsequent neck pain was a consequence of surgery to repair a work injury to her shoulder.

  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole M. Walker, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew C. Bloom, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 2111004614(N)

    Increasing sentence from suspended fine to term of incarceration did not violate double jeopardy where defendant lacked a reasonable expectation of finality in a larger sentencing plan and where the state's time to appeal the sentence had not yet elapsed.

  • In the Matter of a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Ct. of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. White, Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Kathleen M. Vavala, Deputy Disciplinary Counsel, Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Richard L. Abbott, Hockessin, DE, respondent pro se.

    Case Number: 112512-B

    Court ordered attorney's disbarment for intentionally advising client on strategy that abused the legal process so that the client could avoid compliance with his settlement obligations and the trial court's orders.

  • Allen v. Harvey

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Andrew J. Peach, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joshua Fruchter, Wohl & Fruchter LLP, Monsey, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Tammy L. Mercer, James M. Yoch, Jr., Michael A. Laukaitis II, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Craig Zieminski, Andy Jackson, Jeremy Gonzales, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0248-MTZ

    Court declined to award a substantial success fee to stockholders who obtained supplemental disclosures to merger proxy where the disclosures did not remove an impediment to the stockholders' vote, but the disclosures provided a meaningful corporate benefit by informing stockholders about the transaction committee's affiliations with a controlling stockholder sitting on both sides of the merger transaction.

  • Ralston v. Div. of Serv. for Children, Youth & Their Families

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George R. Tsakataras, The Law Office of George R. Tsakataras, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Michelle R. Skoranski, State of Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: 449, 2022

    Trial court did not violate parent's due process rights by failing to consider relative's guardianship petition prior to terminating parental rights where the permanency goal had already changed to adoption.