• Kravis v. Justice of the Peace Court 17

    Publication Date: 2022-09-20
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Conner
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Olka K. Beskrone, Richard H. Morse, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Jillian M. Pratt, Morton, Valihura & Zerbato, LLC, Greenville, DE for respondent.

    Case Number: S22A-04-001 MHC

    Court did not err in granting landlord summary possession for tenant's violation of lease terms requiring prospective residents to apply for residency, where evidence that tenant's residents did not apply until months after the action for summary possession was filed was not relevant to the summary possession ruling.

  • State v. McGuiness

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Denney, Jr., Maria Knoll, Nicole Mozee, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, Dean A. Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2206000799

    Defendant was granted judgment of acquittal on violation of state procurement law where legislature and state officials had only criminalized the splitting of public contracts to avoid accounting oversight, but defendant had merely split invoices and did so at the vendor's request for fewer hours at the beginning of the contract.

  • German v. Skinner

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Periann Doko, Kent & McBride, P.C., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Susan List Hauske, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, De for defendants.

    Case Number: N21C-09-118 WCC

    Court granted defendants' motion to dismiss claim arising out of a personal injury suit where plaintiffs attempted to file a consortium claim although they had previously signed a release and indemnity agreement in exchange for $5,000.

  • Outbox Sys., Inc. v. Trimble Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Consulting | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel, Wilmington, DE; Gerry Silver, Sullivan & Worcester LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Steven T. Margolin, Samuel L. Moultrie, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69944

    Account stated claim dismissed where duplicative of a well-pleaded breach of contract claim and where plaintiff had failed to adequately plead the existence of a debt or account or defendant's express admission to an amount due under such account or debt.

  • Anderson v. GI Assoc. of Delaware, P.A.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-06
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Medinilla
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Lorenza A. Wolhar, Bradley J. Goewert, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: D69948

    Court denied defendant doctor's motion to dismiss petition arising out of a wrongful death case for a patient.

  • In re: CVS Opioid Ins. Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Pharmaceuticals | Retail
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, R. Garret Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Shuster, Daniel M. Sullivan, Blair E. Kaminsky, Daniel K. Phillips, Daniel M. Horowitz, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP, New York, NY; Susan Koehler Sullivan, Clyde & Co LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Robert M. Magino, Clyde & Co LLP, Morristown, NJ for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Robert J. Katzenstein, Julie M. O’Dell, Smith Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher J. St. Jeanos, James E. Fitzmaurice, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY; David J. Baldwin, Peter C. McGivney, Zachary J. Schnapp, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kirk Pasich, Nathan M. Davis, Pasich LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Jeffrey L. Schulman, Peter A. Halprin, Pasich LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: D69940

    Court applied overwhelming hardship standard to motion to dismiss or stay for forum non conveniens where there was no evidence of a "race to the courthouse" by the parties such that their cases could be deemed contemporaneously filed and where there was no indication that plaintiffs had engaged in improper forum shopping.

  • Torrent Pharma Inc. v. Priority Healthcare Distrib., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-23
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Manufacturing | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. McCauley, Palmer Biezup & Henderson LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kevin G. O’Donovan, Palmer Biezup & Henderson LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Elizabeth A. Sloan, Brittany M. Guisini, Ballard Spahr, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew D. Knepper, Tanya Maerz, Husch Blackwell, LLP, St. Louis, MO; Sarah B. Cole, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C., Wilmington, DE. for defendants.

    Case Number: D69926

    Court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment motions in a case arising out of product destruction at a warehouse.

  • Nieves v. This & That Serv., Co.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-23
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walt F. Schmittinger, Schmittinger and Rodriguez, Dover, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John J. Ellis, Heckler and Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: D69927

    Court reversed Industrial Accident Board's decision and remanded the case to be dismissed due to the fact that the appeal was not justiciable and claimant did not seek further relief.

  • In Re Subpoena Request of McGuiness

    Publication Date: 2022-08-23
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luke W. Mette, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher P. Lynett, Bianca A. Valcare, Armstrong Teasdale LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joana S. Suder, Deputy Attorney General, Wilmington, DE for respondent.

    Case Number: D69928

    Government agency sought motion to quash subpoena served by the Delaware Office of Auditor Accounts where the information sought included information relevant to the transaction of Medicaid payments rather than just finalized transactions themselves.

  • Lewis v. Delaware Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-16
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wharton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony N. Delcollo, Christopher J. Isaac, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Allison J. McCowan, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: D69924

    Terminated employee was not denied opportunity to contest prior disciplinary infractions, where those infractions were resolved by memoranda of understanding in which employee agreed not to contest those infractions or his discipline.