As a popular United Kingdom tabloid newspaper ceases publication after allegations of widespread hacking into thousands of individuals’ telephone messages—including the account of a missing British 13-year-old who was later…
Delaware residents looking to enforce the divide between church and state have sued their local county council, aiming to end its practice of beginning each public meeting with the Lord’s…
The governor of Delaware has nominated a sitting Court of Chancery judge to replace retiring Chancellor William B. Chandler III as the top judge on what many consider the top…
Wilson Sonsini Goodich & Rosati has hired William B. Chandler III, who is retiring as chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, the New York Times’ DealBook…
The chief judge of what may be the nation’s most renowned business court has announced his retirement after 25 years on the Delaware Chancery Court bench.
A tenured associate law professor at Widener University School of Law has sued the dean over statements she made during an earlier battle over a controversial classroom hypothetical.
A panel of faculty has recommended that Widener University School of Law not dismiss an associate professor who allegedly used a hypothetical in a criminal class that involved the dean’s…
In 1995, a sister of Katherine Klyce was murdered in her home by a drug dealer. It took a decade to find the slayer and still that didn’t bring closure…
In a much-watched corporate case, the Delaware Chancery Court today OK’d the so-called poison pill strategy successfully utilized by Airgas Inc. to fend off a hostile takeover attempt by Air…
The newest judge in one of the nation’s most respected corporate courts is unusually outspoken about what he calls “the darker underside” of securities class actions and his opinion of…
You might think the Secret Service agents would have been a giveaway, let alone the phalanx of staff and extra security that poured in through a side door at the…
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