Supreme Court of Delaware

The Court refused Great American's interlocutory appeal because its application for certification was filed after the applicable ten-day deadline. Great American neither sought an extension nor established good cause for the delay.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court's denial of Jeffrey Smith's motion for sentence modification, granting the State's motion to affirm because it is manifest on the face of the opening brief that the appeal is without merit.

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the Court of Chancery's dismissal of Sheadrick Richards' breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment claims as time-barred. Relying on its June 15, 2026 order in Reilly v. Horn, the court held that both claims accrued on March 11, 2021, when Collective Growth Corp.

The Court held that the Delaware State Police failed to justify withholding records concerning troopers’ employment histories, résumés, former officers, and anonymized demographic information.

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the Court of Chancery’s decision declining to consider Ban’s supplemental valuation because the court acted within its discretion in finding that the report introduced a new valuation model based on new inputs.

The Court dismissed Project Labrador’s appeal because the Superior Court’s judgment was not final while the appellee’s motion for attorney fees and costs remained pending. Because Project Labrador did not comply with the procedure for seeking interlocutory review, the Court lacked appellate jurisdiction over the…

The Court affirmed Penn’s convictions, holding that the officer had reasonable and articulable suspicion to conduct an investigative stop based on the totality of the circumstances, including Penn’s apparently weighted jacket pocket, nervous surveillance of a police stop, and efforts to conceal himself.

The Court affirmed Scott’s CCDW conviction, holding that the trial evidence permitted a rational jury to infer that he had concealed the firearm on his person before firing it. Because Scott did not move for a judgment of acquittal, the Court reviewed the sufficiency claim for plain error and found none.

The Court independently reviewed the record and counsel's Rule 26(c) submission and concluded that Ennis's direct appeal was wholly frivolous and presented no arguably appealable issue. It therefore affirmed the Superior Court's judgment and deemed counsel's motion to withdraw moot.

The Court approved the Board’s report accepting the respondent’s conditional admissions and imposing a six-month-and-one-day suspension for violations arising from his handling of client trust-account funds, books and records, supervision of nonlawyer assistants, and compliance certificates.

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the denial of Robinson’s second motion for postconviction relief. It held that neither the alleged alibi affidavit nor the police interview evidence satisfied the actual-innocence exception to the procedural bars because the evidence was not sufficiently persuasive to probably…

The Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court's VOP sentence after Taylor admitted violating multiple probation conditions, including committing additional criminal offenses, leaving the county, and violating curfew.

The Court reversed Porter’s convictions because the trial record established that his counsel concurrently represented a jailhouse informant whose interests became adverse to Porter, creating an actual and imputed conflict that denied Porter a fair trial.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed Jean-Baptiste's first-degree murder conviction and statutorily mandated life sentence. Reviewing the denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal de novo, it held that the jailhouse-informant testimony about his admission that he drove the shooter's rental car, if credited and…

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court's judgment affirming the Industrial Accident Board's denial of Prince Parker's petition to determine compensation due for an alleged February 19, 2024 lumbar spine injury.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court's March 19, 2026 finding that Darrell Banks violated probation and the resulting sentence, granting the State's motion to affirm on the opening brief and the record.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Williams's second motion for correction of an illegal sentence. The court held that his Fifth Amendment challenge to the VOP adjudication was a challenge to his conviction, not the sentence, that the sentence was not ambiguous, and that successive probation violations…

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part a Superior Court certiorari judgment striking two of 19 conditions the Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission attached to its approval of Smokey Hollow, LLC's 82-lot subdivision.

The Supreme Court of Delaware refused Fox News Network's interlocutory appeal from a Superior Court order denying its motion to dismiss Governor Newsom's defamation per se action.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Family Court's order terminating Cedasha Walker's parental rights to her three children. After Mother revoked her written consent to termination within the statutory revocation window, the Family Court proceeded on the failure-to-plan ground and found by clear and convincing…

The Delaware Supreme Court dismissed Tyrone Norwood's appeal from a Superior Court order denying his motion for correction of an illegal sentence because the notice of appeal was not timely received.

The Supreme Court of Delaware reversed the Court of Chancery’s denial of a motion to dismiss, holding that the manufacturers’ complaint failed to state a claim for an equitable bill of discovery because it did not identify a specific pending or anticipated claim.

The Supreme Court of Delaware dismissed Shahin's appeal because the Constitution grants the Court no jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the Court of Common Pleas.

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the Superior Court's revocation of Joseph Paczkowski's probation and the imposed sentencing conditions. The Court held that the Superior Court had jurisdiction, that the evidence satisfied the preponderance standard, that there was no Brady violation, no due‑process error, and…

The Supreme Court of Delaware dismissed the appeal as untimely because the appellant failed to file a timely notice of appeal; the prison mailbox rule does not apply to civil actions and no court‑related personnel delay was shown.

The Supreme Court of Delaware dismissed Simon Smith's petition for a writ of mandamus, which sought to compel the Family Court to rule on his pending request for review of a commissioner's order sentencing him to a weekend of incarceration for failing to comply with a child-support order.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court's summary judgment for the Board of Education of the Colonial School District on immunity grounds under the Delaware State Tort Claims Act (DSTCA).

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed the Superior Court’s finding that Davis violated his probation and upheld the Level V incarceration, but remanded the judgment to correct an excessive five‑year probation term; the Court also denied plain‑error relief on notice and granted a transcript request in a related appeal.

The Court reversed the Superior Court’s denial of Rembert’s motion to correct an illegal sentence. It held that the 2023 and 2025 violation-of-probation sentences were improper because Rembert had been discharged from probation on the relevant charges in 2014, and it remanded for corrected sentencing orders.

The Court dismissed White’s petition for a writ of mandamus and granted the State’s motion to dismiss. White failed to show a clear right to production of audio recordings, and he had an adequate remedy because he could ask the Superior Court to review the transcripts for accuracy.

The Court affirmed the revocation of Carman’s probation and conditional release after finding that the State presented sufficient competent evidence that he had been discharged from required sex-offender treatment without successful completion.

The Court affirmed the findings that the business judgment rule applied, that the defendants did not breach their loyalty or care duties, that the forum-selection clause was unilateral, and that Kahlon breached his duty of loyalty by intentionally misleading Leo Group during post-call communications.

The Supreme Court of Delaware affirmed Tucker's conviction for possession of a firearm by a person prohibited and his sentence after independently reviewing the record under the no-merit appellate procedure.

The Supreme Court of Delaware dismissed Melton’s appeal because it lacked jurisdiction to review a Superior Court Commissioner’s postconviction order directly. The court held that Melton must first obtain intermediate review by a Superior Court judge and may appeal after the Superior Court enters a final order.

The Supreme Court of Delaware refused interlocutory review of the Court of Chancery's denial of a motion to dismiss a double-derivative action under Court of Chancery Rule 23.1. The Court concluded that the strict certification standards were not met because exceptional circumstances were absent and the likely costs…

The Supreme Court of Delaware refused discretionary interlocutory review of the Court of Chancery's order denying the Non-Committee Defendants' motion to dismiss. The Court concluded that the litigation would continue regardless of the appeal's outcome and that the potential benefits of review did not outweigh the…

The Court affirmed the findings that Smith’s contractual warranties were false and that he intended to defraud the investors, but reversed the finding that the investors’ reliance was unjustified.

The Supreme Court of Delaware held that the Term Agreement was ambiguous because its one-year term conflicted with language keeping its terms effective until the Master Agreement expired or terminated.

The Supreme Court of Delaware held that the LLC Agreement unambiguously required every member, including the Small Holders, to receive at least 1.5 times its capital contribution in an Exit Sale, thereby giving the Small Holders the ability to block the sale.

The court reversed and remanded because the Court of Chancery failed to make an express factual finding about whether the parties intended to be bound by the signed transaction documents and incorrectly treated their terms as insufficiently definite.