• State v. Ortiz-Bedolla

    Publication Date: 2024-11-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Zachary A. George, Hudson Jones Jaywork & Fisher, LLC, Dover, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2311001498

    Court upheld validity of anticipatory search warrant based on package containing drugs addressed to defendant's address where the package was certain to reach defendant's home and the warrant established conditions precedent for entry into the home.

  • Letke v. Sprenkle

    Publication Date: 2024-05-20
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S23C-02-019 CAK

    Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control police officer was entitled to absolute and qualified immunity for false arrest claims where he and his agency were not insured by the state for such claims and where there was no allegation that officer acted in bad faith.

  • McDaniel-Wesche v. Sun Behavioral Health

    Publication Date: 2024-03-18
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan B. O’Neill, Kimmel, Carter, Roman, Peltz & O’Neill, P.A., Christiana, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas E. Bittner, Heckler & Frabizzio, Wilmington, DE for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A-03-002 CAK

    Industrial Accident Board properly denied claim of permanent impairment based on credibility determination, as claimant failed to seek prompt diagnostic testing or treatment following a work incident and did not disclose an intervening motor vehicle accident to her medical providers and evaluators, and employer's medical expert credibly testified as to the lack of permanent impairment.

  • 1205 Coastal, LLC v. Cove Owners Ass'n, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Berl, Hudson Jones Jaywork & Fisher, LLC, Lewes, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Aaron E. Moore, M. Claire McCudden, Marshall Dennehey, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: S22C-07-002 CAK

    Court dismissed former condominium owner's claims arising from the alleged failure to release a recorded lien, where owner's tender of payment was insufficient to satisfy the condominium association's recorded and statutory liens, as the association was not obligated to obtain a court judgment or record the statutory lien to collect.

  • 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.

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  • State v. Elder

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Casey L. Ewart, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Natalie S. Woloshin, Woloshin Lynch & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: # 1512017983

    Although defense counsel conceded deficient performance during defendant's criminal trial, the court denied postconviction relief where the record showed defendant suffered no prejudice from any errors by trial counsel.

  • Eley v. PNC Bank Branch of Lewes DE

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan J. Eley, Lewes, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Elizabeth S. Fenton, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: S23C-04-003 CAK

    Plaintiff's complaint dismissed where it asserted claims under the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law, as plaintiff failed to appeal the Delaware Human and Civil Rights Commission's order on his administrative complaint.

  • Parisi v. Backyard Works Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Berl, Jr., Hudson, Jones, Jaywork & Fisher, LLC, Lewes, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel C. Herr, Law Office of Daniel C. Herr LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: S21C-02-003 CAK

    Former employee failed to prove entitlement to commissions where his agreement conditioned commission on employer's receipt of payment from customers, but employer violated the Wage Payment and Collection Act by not timely paying earned commissions in accordance with the parties' practice.

  • Baker v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-12-27
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Heather Long, Kimmel Carter Roman Peltz & O’Neill, PA, Newark, DE; David L. Kwass, Benjamin Baer, Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Shari L. Milewski, Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy, LLC, Wilmington, DE; David Killoran, Squire Patton Boggs, San Francisco, CA; Gerard Cedrone, Lavin, Cedrone, Graver, Boyd & DiSipio, Philadelphia, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: S18C-06-002 CAK

    Court declined to grant summary judgment dismissal based on alleged insufficiencies of plaintiff's expert's opinion where defendants' challenges to the expert's opinion were based primarily on factual disagreements that the jury was entitled to resolve.

  • Davis v. Town of S. Bethany Beach

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Karsnitz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric G. Mooney, Eric G. Mooney, P.A., Georgetown, DE; Tasha Marie Stevens-Gueh, Andrew & Stevens-Gueh, LLC, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Stephani J. Ballard, Law Offices of Stephani J. Ballard, LLC, Montchanin, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: S20C-06-018 CAK

    Promissory estoppel claim for denial of retirement benefits not dismissed where former employee sufficiently pled that prior versions of employer's personnel manual and employer's conduct created a promise that employee would be entitled to benefits despite subsequent amendments to eligibility requirements.