Supreme Court of Delaware

Summary judgment for defendant on claims alleging that it made negligent misrepresentations in its audit report on the annual financial statements of a company and that plaintiffs relied on the report to their detriment is affirmed over a claim that the record on which the superior court based its decision was the product of three erroneous discovery rulings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2006
• Published 06/26/2006

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:
  
• Kevin William Gibson, Esquire, Gibson & Perkins, P.C., Wilmington, Delaware, for appellants, Richard Coleman, Carl Sledz, Marietta Dennis, Steven Coleman and Shane Lynagh.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory V. Varallo, Esquire, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC.