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   State Courts - Delaware - September 3 - September 4, 2008

  
In re Sample, Nos. 340, 2008, 356, 2008 CONSOLIDATED n11 Because these petitions present common questions of fact and law, we hereby consolidate them sua sponte., SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE, September 3, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Because the Attorney General's Office obtained the documents requested by an inmate and provided him with copies of them, the inmate failed to invoke the original jurisdiction of the state supreme court; accordingly, his petition for a writ of mandamus under Del. Const. art. IV, ? 11(6), Del. Sup. Ct. R. 43 was dismissed as moot.

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Prospero v. State, No. 191, 2008, SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE, September 3, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Because defendant did not raise any issues for consideration on appeal and because his appeal was found to be wholly without merit and devoid of any arguably appealable issues, pursuant to Del. Sup. Ct. R. 26(c), the State's motion to affirm was granted, the judgment was affirmed, and counsel's motion to withdraw was moot.

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State v. Jones, I.D. No. 9911016309, SUPERIOR COURT OF DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, September 3, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Inmate was denied postconviction relief were, inter alia, many claims were procedurally barred and inmate could not show cause or prejudice, and counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to allegedly false information in affidavit of probable cause for arrest warrant or failing to call alibi witness where inmate failed to show viable alibi.

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Allen v. Gierstorfer, C.A. No. 07C-01-055-JRJ, SUPERIOR COURT OF DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, September 4, 2008, Decided
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Carnevale v. Godwin, C.A. No.: 07A-11-001 FSS, SUPERIOR COURT OF DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, September 4, 2008, Decided
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Lagrone v. American Mortell Corp., C.A. No. 04C-10-116-ASB, C.A. No. 07C-12-019-JRS, SUPERIOR COURT OF DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, September 4, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Asbestos co-defendants' indemnification complaint against another co-defendant was dismissed because two co-defendants had no indemnifiable loss since neither contributed to settle the case, and the settling co-defendant had no contractual basis for indemnification and it could not as a matter of law pursue a claim for implied indemnification.

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Merritt v. UPS, No. 318, 2007, SUPREME COURT OF DELAWARE, September 4, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Judgment was reversed as employer's admission that workers' compensation claimant's partial disability under Del. Code Ann. tit. 19, ? 2325 was ongoing was judicial admission. Delaware Industrial Accident Board erred in failing to explain why it relied on independent medical examiner's opinion that partial disability would cease at specific time.

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Parfi Holding AB v. Mirror Image Internet, Inc., C.A. No. 18507-VCS, COURT OF CHANCERY OF DELAWARE, NEW CASTLE, September 4, 2008, Decided
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Overview: Where minority shareholders made material misrepresentations to a chancery court in order to have it lift a stay of their derivative action that had been entered pending termination of Swedish arbitration proceedings, dismissal of the action under Del. Ch. Ct. R. 41(b) and under the court's inherent authority was warranted.

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