• KDM Dev. Corp. v. The Consumer Prot. Unit of the Dep't of Justice of the State of Delaware

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Paradee, Brian V. DeMott, Dover, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Owen P. Lefkon, Ryan T. Costa, Deputy Attorneys General, State of Delaware Department of Justice Wilmington, DE for respondent.

    Case Number: S23M-06-018-CAK

    Consumer Protection Unit had statutory authority to issue subpoenas to affiliate of manufactured home community owners where it was not exclusively bound to make civil investigative demands under the Consumer Fraud Act, and the subpoenas were sufficiently tailored to the scope of an investigation into the safety of the community residents.

  • The Estate of Thomas G. Stone, Jr. v. Bayhealth Med. Ctr., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Clark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Poliquin, The Poliquin Firm LLC., Dover, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: James E. Drnec, Phillip M. Casale, Wharton Levin Ehrmentraut & Klein, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: K22C-03-017 JJC

    The court applied the "sham affidavit doctrine," finding that plaintiff's expert's affidavit submitted with its opposition to defendant's motion for summary judgment contradicted the expert's prior deposition testimony and was submitted for the sole purpose of defeating an otherwise appropriate summary judgment motion and that no adequate explanation of the contradiction was provided.

  • Cargill, Inc. v. Rossi

    Publication Date: 2023-10-30
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Food and Beverage
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Rennie
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard P. Rollo, Travis S. Hunter, Jordan L. Cramer, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John A. Sensing, Hannah L. Paxton, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N23C-03-047 SKR CCLD

    Court lacked personal jurisdiction over former employee in non-compete breach action where forum selection clause was expressly limited to jurisdiction in the chancery court, rather than any state or federal court sitting in and for Delaware.

  • Citizens Against Solar Pollution v. Kent County

    Publication Date: 2023-10-30
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Energy | Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Medinilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Abbot, Abbot Law Firm, Hockessin, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Max B. Walton, Lisa R. Hatfield, Erica K. Sefton, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE; Richard A. Forsten, Wendie C. Stabler, James D. Taylor, Jr., Saul Ewing LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-03-196 VLM

    Although plaintiffs failed to seek timely certiorari review of conditional use permit approval, transfer of the case from the chancery court after it concluded that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction because plaintiffs had an adequate remedy at law permitted the court to exercise its discretion to hear the case.

  • Middlecap Assoc., LLC, v. The Town of Middletown

    Publication Date: 2023-10-30
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Paradee, Brian V. DeMott, Baird Mandalas Brockstedt & Federico, LLC, Dover, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Scott G. Wilcox, Giordano, DelCollo, Werb & Gagne, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-03-181 CEB

    The court found that the complaint for certiorari regarding the denial of a conditional use permit was not untimely filed, the claim was not barred by plaintiff's failure to exhaust its administrative remedies, and the mayor and members of the town council were immune from suit in their individual capacity.

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  • Fowler v. Perdue Farms, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-30
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walt F. Schmittinger, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrea C. Panico, Megan E. Traynor, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: K23A-01-001 NEP

    Although worker contracted COVID-19 in an area of the workplace where the risk of transmission was greater than the general risk attending employment, that increased risk was not linked to any peculiar or specific aspect of the worker's job and thus his COVID-19 did not qualify as an occupational disease.

  • Cline v. The Nemours Found.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-23
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Lewis Welch, Doroshaw, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Keri L. Morris-Johnson, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: N22A-11-003 FWW

    Industrial Accident Board erred in failing to consider claimant's individual circumstances in determining whether claimant had exhausted reasonable conservative treatment and thus had made surgical treatment reasonable and necessary.

  • CVR Refining LP v. XL Specialty Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-23
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Energy | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Travis S. Hunter, Alexandra M. Ewing, Srinivas M. Raju, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David P. Bender, Jr., Joseph G. Balice, Haynes and Boone LLP, Costa Mesa, CA; Benjamin L. Mesches, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Dallas, TX; Brian Singleterry, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Fort Worth, TX; Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Herber Beigel, Law Offices of Herbert Beigel, Tuscon, AZ for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert J. Katzenstein, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Leland H. Jones, Chiara Tondi Resta, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC; John C. Phillips, Jr., David Bilson, Phillips McLaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael P. Duffy, Scarlett M. Rajbanshi, Boston, MA; Erica J. Kerstein, Robinson & Cole LLP, New York, NY; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Ropers Majeski, P.C., New York, NY; Marc S. Casarino, Kennedys CMK LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sean P. Mahoney, Michael E. DiFebbo, Kennedys CMK LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: N21C-01-260 EMD CCLD

    Court denied entry of partial judgment on issue that the court entered summary judgment for plaintiffs, where plaintiffs would not be unduly prejudiced by the delay in being able to appeal and where partial judgment could lead to piecemeal litigation and appeals as the resolved issue was not a predicate issue for the rest of the case.

  • State of Delaware v. Gillen

    Publication Date: 2023-10-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Brennan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Betts, Department of Justice, for the State of Delaware.
    for defendant: James M. Stiller for defendant.

    Case Number: 2211005299

    A reasonable, articulable suspicion existed to conduct a DUI investigation when defendant purposefully popped his muffler as he drove raising the equipment violation to the level of impaired judgment. Defendant's motion to suppress denied.

  • Jones v. Navient

    Publication Date: 2023-10-09
    Practice Area: Whistleblower Laws
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lugg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith R. Jones, plaintiff pro se.
    for defendant: John M. Nolan III, Morgan D. Hollander, Jackson Lewis, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Margaret M. DiBianca, Clark Hill PLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N21C-10-020 SPL

    Finding that plaintiff's minimal participation in pursuing the case "evidenced a pattern of dilatoriness" culminating in his failure to produce evidence in support of his claim, the court granted defendant's motion to dismiss for failure to prosecute despite noting that the court had a "strong policy in favor of deciding cases on the merits."