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  • Abbott v. Delaware State Pub. Integrity Commn

    Publication Date: 2018-03-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Abbott, Abbott Law Firm, Hockessin, DE, pro se plaintiff;
    for defendant: Deborah L. Moreau, Delaware State Public Integrity Commission, Dover, DE, attorney for defendant.
    Case Number: D68078

    Public Integrity Commission correctly declined to exercise jurisdiction over attorney employee of Office of Disciplinary Counsel where regulation of legal profession was expressly reserved to the Delaware Supreme Court.

  • Connolly v. Theta Chi Fraternity, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-03-14
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Education | Food and Beverage
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beverly L. Bove and Vincent J. X. Hedrick, Beverly L. Bove, Attorney at Law, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for plaintiffs;
    for defendant: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehy Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; William E. Manning, James D. Taylor, and Danielle N. Petaja, Saul Ewing, Arnstein & Lehr, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Colin M. Shalk and Brian V. Demott, Casarino Christman Shalk Ransom & Doss, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Nancy Chrissinger Cobb, Chrissinger & Baumberger, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for defendants.
    Case Number: D68071

    Wrongful death suit dismissed on summary judgment where decedents decision to become acutely intoxicated was the proximate cause of his death.