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Publication Date: 2023-03-28
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Primos
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Welch, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Suzanne Macpherson-Johnson, Office of Defense Services, Dover, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D70176
Court invoked doctrine of jury lenity to allow operating vehicle causing death conviction to stand despite jury's failure to reach verdict on inattentive driving charge where the statute did not expressly require a conviction under the motor vehicle code and the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction.
Publication Date: 2023-03-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Calvin Harmon Jr., Brett Bendistis Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: David C. Skoranski, Delaware Department of State, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 1909016095(N)
Court affirmed official misconduct conviction where evidence demonstrated that former city council president used his office to direct public funds to his non-profit entity.
Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. White, Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Kathleen V. Vavala, Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
for defendant: John S. Malik, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
Case Number: 111, 2022
Where there was sufficient evidence to conclude that an attorney knowingly made misrepresentations to the court, the court adopted the presumptive sanction of suspension.
Publication Date: 2023-01-31
Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
Industry: Insurance | Mining and Resources
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Peter C. McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Martha Sheehy, Sheey Law Firm, Billings, MT; Kyle A. Gray, Holland & Hart LLP, Billings, MT for appellant.
for defendant: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott B. Schreiber, William C. Perdue, Andrew T. Tutt, Samuel I. Ferenc, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C.; John C. Phillips Jr., David A. Bilson, Phillips, Mclaughlin & Hall, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Geoffrey W. Heineman, Jung H. Park, John J. Iacobucci Jr., Ropers Majeski, PC, New York, NY; John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gregory F. Fischer, Cozen O’Connor, Wilmington, DE; Angelo G. Savino, Cozen O’Connor, New York, NY for appellees.
Case Number: 24, 2022
Superior court did not err in applying law of state of incorporation to resolution of directors' and officers' insurance coverage dispute where the policy applied to D&O liability across multiple jurisdictions, as state of incorporation had the strongest connection to the dispute.
Publication Date: 2023-01-31
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Teklits, Sara Barry, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey Alan Simes, Goodwin Proctor, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
for defendant: Richard I.G. Jones, John G. Harris, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 184, 2022
The court affirmed the trial court's ruling that an irrevocable proxy did not run with majority shares and dismissed appellant's arguments that the court improperly relied on "extrinsic" evidence contained in the proxy's addendum as well as the Third Restatement, finding that the addendum fell within the proxy's four corners and that the law cited from the Third Restatement accurately reflected the same legal principles that were in place at the time the proxy was established.
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Publication Date: 2023-01-17
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick J. Collins, Collins & Price, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: John R. Williams, Delaware Dep’t of Justice, Dover, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 83, 2022
The court affirmed the Superior Court's judgment of conviction on the basis that the trial court properly denied defendant's request to issue a jury instruction informing the jury that the police officer's failure to properly annotate the location of evidence in a backpack constituted "missing evidence" under the Lolly/Deberry line of cases.
Publication Date: 2023-01-03
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory | Transportation
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Savitt, Sarah K. Eddy, Adam M Gogolak, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen P. Lamb, Andrew G. Gordon, Harris Fischman, Robert N. Kravitz, Carter E. Greenbaum, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Srinivas M. Raju, Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rolin P. Bissell, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Daniel G. Paterno, Eric A. Veres, Samuel D. Cordle, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 2021-0700-PWG
Member controlling general partner in Master Limited Partnership was correct party to determine whether opinion of counsel to exercise call right was acceptable, meaning that general partner and related entities were exculpated from liability to limited partners due to the presumption of good faith in reliance on opinion of counsel imposed by the limited partnership agreement.
Publication Date: 2022-12-27
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Traynor
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander S. Mackler, Allison J. McCowan, Zi-Xiang Shen, Victoria R. Sweeney, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: M. Jane Brady, Brady Legal Group LLC, Lewes, DE; Charlotte Davis, Noel H. Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Indianapolis, IA; Julianne E. Murray, Law Office of Murray, Phillips & Gay, Georgetown, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 342, 2022
Same-day voter registration and vote-by-mail statutes violated the Delaware constitution, which specifically enumerated the categories of citizens entitled to cast votes by absentee ballot and also effectively undercut enumerated rights to challenge voter registration records.
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Vaughn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Lafferty, Miranda N. Gilbert, John P. DiTomo, Lauren N. Bennett, Thomas P. Will, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert N. Hochman, Heather Benzmiller Sultanian, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL; Eamon P. Joyce, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY; Andrew J. Rossman, Jonathon B. Oblak, Nicholas Hoy, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
for defendant: Christopher Viceconte, Gibbons, P.C., Wilmington DE; Jennifer A. Hradil, William S. Hatfield, Camille V. Otero, Joshua R. Elias, Gibbons, P.C., Newark, NY for appellees.
Case Number: 279, 2021
Court reversed Superior Court's ruling in a breach of contract case finding that the clear and unambiguous language of the stock-purchasing agreement allocated all off-site environmental cleanup liabilities to appellee.
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Montgomery-Reeves
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney S. Liebesman, Beth B. Miller, Kasey H. DeSantis, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: Andrea S. Brooks, Wilks Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for appellee.
Case Number: 288, 2021
Distributions from statutory trust constituted the personal property of the holder of the beneficial interest and could therefore be subject to garnishment by the beneficiary's creditors.
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