241 ABA Journal Delaware articles.
A Delaware judge who sentenced a DuPont heir to probation for the rape of his young daughter didn’t say “he will not fare well…
Apr 10, 2014 2:10 PM CDT
For the first time in decades and possibly its entire 220-year history, one of the nation’s top business courts has exercised a little-known power.
Delaware’s Court of Chancery this week…
Apr 9, 2014 8:20 PM CDT
Updated: A security detail has been assigned to the Delaware judge who sentenced a DuPont heir to probation for the rape of his daughter beginning when she was 3 years…
Apr 3, 2014 8:00 PM CDT
Corrected and updated: A lawsuit filed against DuPont heir Robert Richards IV is calling attention to the light sentence he received in 2009 for the rape of his daughter beginning…
Apr 1, 2014 4:12 PM CDT
The nation’s top court has refused to hear an unusual appeal by the Delaware Court of Chancery of a federal appellate court’s ruling that secret corporate arbitration hearings involving the…
Mar 25, 2014 11:05 PM CDT
Relatives of a Delaware courthouse shooter could get as much as life in prison if they are convicted in an unusual federal cyberstalking case that has been brought against them.
…Mar 17, 2014 10:45 PM CDT
A law firm that represented two divers who claimed to have found emeralds from a sunken ship is now facing a request for sanctions because of its actions in the…
Mar 17, 2014 2:02 PM CDT
Another state is dealing with reported irregularities at its drug-testing laboratory, calling into question convictions that occurred between 2010 and 2013 as an investigation continues into the apparent theft of…
Feb 28, 2014 6:10 PM CST
In an unusual case pitting one of the nation’s most respected corporate law tribunals against a federal appeals court, the Delaware Court of Chancery is seeking a writ of certiorari…
Jan 22, 2014 9:30 PM CST
Updated: The Delaware Supreme Court has ordered a two-year suspension for a lawyer who, among other violations, worked out of his Pennsylvania home and did not have exclusive, designated office…
Dec 18, 2013 11:45 AM CST
Maryland’s attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler, opposes underage drinking and has urged parents to take responsibility to prevent it.
But when it came to a high school graduation party attended…
Oct 25, 2013 4:25 PM CDT
A divided federal appeals court Wednesday said a novel attempt by a highly regarded state court to offer an alternative to private arbitration of corporate matters violates the First Amendment…
Oct 23, 2013 7:05 PM CDT
The daughter of a man who reportedly shot his former daughter-in-law and another woman to death at a Delaware courthouse before committing suicide earlier this year is being held without…
Sep 17, 2013 5:10 PM CDT
Appearing in court on Monday in what the public defender called a “unique” cyberstalking case against multiple family members accused of playing a role in a fatal Delaware courthouse shooting…
Aug 12, 2013 4:25 PM CDT
The wife, son and daughter of a man who fatally shot two women at a Delaware courthouse earlier this year as they arrived for a child-support hearing have been federally…
Aug 8, 2013 5:39 PM CDT
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