218 ABA Journal Delaware articles.
Jun 1, 2017 12:35 AM CDT
The ABA achieved some significant victories during the past year by advocating for revisions to key federal regulations that will protect the independence of the legal profession and preserve the…
Mar 1, 2017 1:05 AM CST
A Delaware lawyer filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday that challenges a state constitutional requirement limiting the number of judges from one political party on state courts.
James Adams claims in…
Feb 23, 2017 7:00 AM CST
The Delaware Supreme Court has struck down the state’s death penalty law, ruling it gives judges too much decision-making power in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a jury…
Aug 3, 2016 9:43 AM CDT
Corrected: The Delaware Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of the state’s death penalty statute in a case involving a law grad accused of killing a former classmate.
An assistant…
Jun 20, 2016 8:00 AM CDT
A Delaware prosecutor with an aversion to the smell of hard-boiled eggs has been suspended for 30 days as a result of a gun prank.
The prosecutor, Deputy Attorney General…
Jun 14, 2016 7:16 AM CDT
A Delaware chancery judge’s decision last week that a buyout group paid too little for Dell Inc. is drawing praise from shareholder advocates and creating alarm in corporate boardrooms.
The…
Jun 7, 2016 11:59 AM CDT
What once appeared to be a significant, multi-pronged probe of claimed widespread corruption concerning Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s Mexico operations has fizzled.
A three-year federal probe, while still ongoing, has determined…
May 16, 2016 11:55 AM CDT
Wheeler K. Neff, 67, is a corporate and banking lawyer with “a spotless record with the Delaware bar” during his 40-year legal career, his lawyer tells a local newspaper.
Yet…
Apr 8, 2016 10:30 AM CDT
Calling the terms of a $200 payday loan “unconscionable,” Delaware’s influential Court of Chancery voided it Monday and awarded the borrower $3,240 in damages, plus attorney fees.
Since plaintiff Gloria…
Mar 16, 2016 11:00 AM CDT
Most people bring weapons and other contraband into Delaware courthouses by mistake, security officers say.
“They truly do not remember the extra-large pair of gardening shears”—or loaded pistols or other…
Mar 4, 2016 2:05 PM CST
The widow, son and daughter of a man who fatally shot two women at a Delaware courthouse in 2013 have been sentenced to life terms in a first-of-its-kind federal cyberstalking…
Feb 19, 2016 10:15 AM CST
After a U.S. Supreme Court decision in January that struck down a Florida death-penalty sentencing scheme similar to Delaware’s, the state’s top court has agreed to review questions about whether…
Feb 1, 2016 5:00 PM CST
Board members of CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. should have put their duty to the companies and shareholders ahead of loyalty to 92-year-old chairman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone.
But…
Jan 19, 2016 4:35 PM CST
A paralegal at an unidentified southern Delaware law firm stole nearly $440,000 from her employer’s trust account over a period of five years or more, authorities say.
Penni Enama, 50,…
Dec 10, 2015 4:10 PM CST
