Supreme Court of Delaware - April 2003 Opinion Summaries

WALTON v. STATE OF DELAWARE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conduct and statements about a bomb did not amount to evidence that he displayed "what appeared to be a deadly weapon" under the first...

BROWN v. E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
The statute of limitations on claims for birth defects caused by toxic exposure did not begin to run until plaintiffs were on notice that harmful...

TAYLOR v. STATE OF DELAWARE

Criminal Law & Procedure
A prosecutor's "concession" to the jury during summation that the state "probably" had not provided sufficient evidence to establish four of eight...

ALEXANDER v. CAHILL

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
The trial judge erred by allowing a police officer to give his lay opinion on the cause of a traffic accident in a personal injury action, and by...

OMNICARE, INC. v. NCS HEALTHCARE, INC.

Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, M&A
Voting agreements and other defensive measures protecting a merger transaction are both preclusive and coercive in the absence of an effective...

WILLIAMS v. STATE OF DELAWARE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where a burglary is alleged to be the felony on which a felony murder charge is predicated, that death that occurs must not only be in the course of...