Delaware Superior Court excludes unproduced documents from trial and sanctions plaintiff for discovery violations, just days before a commercial case was set to begin.
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.
Delaware Superior Court grants summary judgment and dismisses a pro se trespass claim after the plaintiff failed to respond to discovery, attend depositions, or comply with court orders over nearly two years.
Delaware Superior Court denies a motion to suppress in a drug case, holding that a Franks challenge to an arrest-warrant affidavit is moot when the defendant was arrested without a warrant before the affidavit was filed.
Delaware Superior Court orders the State to hand over Intoxilyzer 9000 training slides to a DUI defendant, rejecting the State’s argument that a manufacturer’s copyrights shield the only existing written operating procedures from criminal discovery.
Delaware Superior Court denies a motion to suppress in a DUI case, finding that a driver’s escalating evasive behavior, refusal of sobriety tests, and other indicators gave officers probable cause to arrest and obtain a blood-draw warrant.