Supreme Court of Delaware

An order denying preliminary and permanent injunctions to preclude defendants-government officials from publicly disclosing certain information concerning the death of plaintiff's husband to the public is reversed where, under the circumstances, the Medical Examiner Statute and the Health Record Privacy Statute protected the decedent's wife by prohibiting public disclosure of the information at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/04/2006
• Published 04/04/2006

Judges

• HOLLAND, Justice:, Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices (constituting the Court en Banc).

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John C. Phillips, Joseph James Farnan, III and Brian E. Farnan (argued), Phillips, Goldman and Spence, Wilmington, DE, for appellant., Richard G. Elliott, Jr., Chad M. Shandler, Alyssa M. Schwartz, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, DE, amicus curiae, for The Maryland Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ann Woolfolk (argued), James J. Hanley, Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE, for State defendants-appellees and Walter W. Speakman, Jr. (argued), City Solicitor, Town of Rehoboth, Dover, DE, for Rehoboth Police Chief, Keith Banks, defendant-appellee.