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  • Verrastro v. Bayhospitalists, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-04-24
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben T. Castle and Bruce L. Hudson, Hudson & Castle Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Gregory S. McKee and Lauren C. McConnell, Wharton Levin Ehrmantraut & Klein, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68541

    The dismissal of negligence claims against two physicians on statute of limitations grounds did not bar a timely-filed claim against the physicians' employer under the doctrine of respondeat superior.

  • Valentine v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian L. Arban, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for the state.
    for defendant: Benjamin S. Gifford, IV, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68517

    A search warrant was not based on probable cause where an unidentified informant's tip was not corroborated by police surveillance or other information.

  • Burrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward C. Gill, Georgetown, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Williams, Department of Justice, Dover, DE for appellee.
    Case Number: D68503

    Juvenile offender's aggregate sentence of 37 years, which included a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years for murder, did not violate the holding of Miller v. Alabama where the sentencing statute expressly imposed a lesser punishment on juvenile offenders, offender's sentence was not the functional equivalent of life without parole, and multiple mandatory sentences would still give offender chance at parole.

  • Ayala v. State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2019-02-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Expert Witnesses
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    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.

  • Delaware Bd. of Nursing v. Francis

    Publication Date: 2018-10-17
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law | Regulation
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carla A.K. Jarosz, attorney for appellant
    for defendant: Daniel A. Griffith, attorney for appellees.
    Case Number: D68318

    State not obligated to prove that nurse's breach of professional standards also caused harm to a patient or the public to impose discipline for violations.

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  • Grimes v. State

    Publication Date: 2018-06-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell Grimes, pro se appellant
    for defendant: Smyrna, DE; John Williams, Delaware Department of Justice, Dover, DE, attorney for appellee.
    Case Number: D68192

    Acquittal on lesser-included offense did not preclude retrial on greater offenses contained within the same indictment after initial conviction on those greater offenses was vacated on direct appeal.

  • Cannon v. State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Traynor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, Ross Aronstam & Moritz, LLP, Wilmington, DE; John P. Deckers, The Law Offices of John P. Deckers, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorneys for appellant;
    for defendant: Carolyn S. Hake, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, attorney for appellee.
    Case Number: D68079

    Family court erred in adjudicating juvenile delinquent for criminally negligent homicide where juveniles attack upon victim did not create a foreseeable risk of death as the risks of injury and death were unrelated to the victims cause of death.