Delaware Superior Court denies Fox News’s motion to dismiss Governor Newsom’s defamation suit, finding it reasonably conceivable that the network acted with actual malice by selectively editing video to accuse Newsom of lying about a phone call with President Trump.
Delaware Superior Court grants summary judgment on a $3.5 million defaulted loan, rejecting the borrower’s attempts to assert counterclaims, compel unrelated discovery, and stay the case pending New York litigation.
Delaware Superior Court holds that a pro se third-party defendant waived his personal jurisdiction defense by filing multiple motions without raising it, and finds a permissive forum selection clause does not mandate New York as the exclusive venue.
Delaware Superior Court dismisses the ACLU’s challenge to a Fenwick Island charter provision allowing trusts, LLCs, and other legal entities to vote in municipal elections, finding the complaint failed to overcome the presumption of constitutionality.
Delaware Superior Court partially reverses the Attorney General’s FOIA denial, ordering the Department of Correction to disclose aggregate inmate population data but upholding the withholding of individual identifying information under statutory protections.
Delaware Superior Court dismisses all seven claims brought by a pro se homeowner against Dover police, the city, and ADT Security after a warrantless home entry triggered by a residential alarm, finding exigent circumstances and municipal immunity.
Delaware Superior Court dismisses with prejudice a grandmother’s school choice complaint against the Caesar Rodney School District, finding no cognizable relief available and no exhaustion of required administrative remedies.
Delaware Superior Court reverses the denial of displaced worker status for a Spanish-speaking Perdue Foods employee whose workplace injury left him unable to do physical labor and whose decades-old Puerto Rico credentials were non-transferable.
Delaware Superior Court defers ruling on a medical negligence affidavit of merit and grants 20 days to cure the omission of proximate cause language, reaffirming the minimal standards for affidavits under Delaware law.
Delaware Superior Court denies a hospital’s motion to exclude a decedent’s medical bills, ruling that sponsoring an employee benefit plan does not make the hospital-defendant “connected” to the collateral source under the collateral source rule.