United States of America v. Robert Sloan

David Matusiewicz1 and Christine Belford were married from 2001 to 2006, during which time they had three children, L.M.1, L.M.2, and K.M.1 (the “children”). The couple and their children also lived with Belford’s one child from a previous marriage, K.M.2.2 After their divorce, Belford and David engaged in a bitter custody dispute, during which David accused Belford of being an unfit mother and ... More...    $0 (09-09-2018 - DE)

Former Wilmington Housing Authority Employee Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for Embezzlement

WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Damien Piper, age 34, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced today by the Honorable Gregory M. Sleet, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, to 12 months and one day... More...    $0 (03-10-2016 - DE)

In 1992 Jermaine Wright was convicted of Murder in the First Degree, Robbery
in the First Degree, and related weapons offenses for his involvement in what was
known as the Hi-Way Inn murder/robbery. The Superior Court imposed the death
penalty for his conviction of Murder in the First Degree. Prior to trial, Wright moved
to suppress a statement he had given to police. He alleged... More...    $0 (01-13-2016 - DE)

On February 14, 2010, Kenton Wesley Wolf was shot with a BB gun and stabbed to death in his Smyrna residence. The police arrested Juan Restrepo Duque (“Restrepo”), an eighteen-year-old Colombian national who had been living in the U.S. for seven years, and charged him with Wolf’s murder. A Superior Court jury found Restrepo guilty of second degree murder, possession of a deadly weapon during th... More...    $0 (12-20-2015 - DE)

As a preliminary observation, we note that, at oral argument before this Court,
counsel for RBC emphasized that RBC “intentionally made appellate arguments that do
not require this Court to review findings of fact.” Although RBC has chosen to avoid any
direct and specific challenge to the facts as found by the trial court, this Court,
nevertheless, has examined the appellate... More...    $0 (12-01-2015 - DE)

In 1996, Nancy Houseman and her husband Aaron Houseman (together the
―Housemans‖) formed Med-Legal, Inc.,2 which they sold to Universata, Inc.
(―Universata,‖ or the ―Company‖) in 2006 for a seven-year stream of payments
totaling approximately $9 million.3 In 2009, after the Company had difficulty
making their payments, the Housemans and Uni... More...    $0 (11-20-2015 - DE)

Plaintiff Finger Lakes Capital Partners, LLC (“Finger Lakes”) is a small and
struggling asset management firm. Over the course of a decade, Finger Lakes sponsored
investments in five portfolio companies. Each time, Finger Lakes formed a different
Delaware limited liability company as a special purpose vehicle for the investment.
Non-party Lyrical Partners, L.P. (“Lyrical”) is a... More...    $0 (10-27-2015 - DE)

In the early morning hours of July 25, 2013, officers assigned to
Operation Safe Streets were driving in an unmarked police vehicle to a residence in
the 2800 block of North Washington Street in Wilmington, Delaware to perform a
curfew check on a probationer. They observed Shannon Mathis drinking a beer
from a can as he walked along the sidewalk with another man. The officers... More...    $0 (10-26-2015 - DE)

A five-day trial took place on June 22-25 and 30, 2015. The parties submitted over
900 exhibits, called six fact witnesses and five expert witnesses, and lodged twenty-three
depositions. The following facts were proven by a preponderance of the evidence.
Quadrant principally challenged Athilon’s payments of allegedly excessive service and licensing fees to an affiliate of Merced, as... More...    $0 (10-20-2015 - DE)

To understand the arguments that have been raised in this case, it is easier
first to describe what HFA is not, rather than what it is. HFA is not a recorded
subdivision in Sussex County. There is no plot plan, recorded or otherwise,
showing the numbered lots within HFA. Instead, HFA consists of several parcels
of land along a private road near Bridgeville.1 These parcels w... More...    $0 (10-04-2015 - DE)

To understand the arguments that have been raised in this case, it is easier
first to describe what HFA is not, rather than what it is. HFA is not a recorded
subdivision in Sussex County. There is no plot plan, recorded or otherwise,
showing the numbered lots within HFA. Instead, HFA consists of several parcels
of land along a private road near Bridgeville.1 These parcels w... More...    $0 (10-04-2015 - DE)

WILMINGTON, DE – A federal jury has convicted David T. Matusiewicz, his mother, Lenore Matusiewicz, and his sister, Amy Gonzalez, of interstate stalking and cyberstalking, in violation of federal law. The jury also found all three defendants criminally responsible for the death of Christine Belford, who was murdered in the lobby of the New Castle County Courthouse by co-conspirator Thomas Matusi... More...    $0 (07-10-2015 - DE)

This appeal concerns a multimillion-dollar contract dispute over the distribution of profits from medical patents. In particular, it involves U.S. Patent No. 5,922,021 (“the ‘021 patentâ€�), awarded to appellant G. David Jang for coronary stent technology. Jang, a doctor and inventor, sued Boston Scientific Corporation (“BSCâ€�), the company to which Jang assigned his coronary stent patents,... More...    $0 (09-13-2013 - DE)

This is an appeal from a post-trial decision and final judgment of the Court of Chancery awarding more than $2 billion in damages and more than $304 million in attorneys’ fees. The Court of Chancery held that the defendants-appellants, Americas Mining Corporation (“AMCâ€�), the subsidiary of Southern Copper Corporation’s (“Southern Peruâ€�) controlling shareholder, and affiliate directors ... More...    $0 (08-29-2012 - DE)

Title 14, section 1056(h) of the Delaware Code provides that “[a]ny school board which permits the use of public school property for any use other than for public school use shall not be liable in tort for any damages by reason of negligence in the construction or maintenance of such property.â€� Plaintiff- Below/Appellant, Betty Bantum, allegedly suffered injuries when she slipped and fell on a... More...    $0 (05-18-2011 - DE)

This case arises out of a claimed violation of the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law (“DEALâ€�), 6 Del. C. § 4500 et seq., which prohibits denying access to public accommodations on the basis of race or color. The appellants, Andre Boggerty et. al.1 (collectively, “Appellantsâ€�), claim that the Appellees, David Stewart (“Stewartâ€�) and his employer, Carmike Cinemas, Inc. d/b/a Carmike 14 ... More...    $0 (02-17-2011 - DE)

This case is brought by three African-American couples who, in 2004, purchased adjacent houses in a Dover, Delaware, community known as “Silver Lake.â€� Plaintiffs received mortgages from Wachovia Mortgage Corporation, but only after Wachovia imposed several conditions on the approvals of these mortgages. Plaintiffs allege that these conditions were racially motivated, and brought suit against W... More...    $0 (09-13-2010 - DE)

Joyce O’Neal, as Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Reader, appeals from a Superior Court order granting State Farm’s motion for summary judgment. After drinking several beers and smoking crack cocaine, Reader embarked on a personal errand in a van owned by her employer and insured by State Farm. Around midnight on July 10, 2006, she pulled that van onto the shoulder of I-495. For reason... More...    $0 (07-23-2009 - DE)

In this malpractice action, we consider whether the trial court erred in granting judgment as a matter of law in favor of the defendant doctor at the close of plaintiff's case. Plaintiff claimed that her doctor negligently failed to issue instructions for her post-operative care and that the defendant hospital's nurses negligently failed to alert the doctor to signs of post-operative complicat... More...    $0 (09-04-2002 - DE)

In this appeal, we hold that a limited partnership agreement may provide for contractually created fiduciary duties substantially mirroring traditional fiduciary duties that apply in the corporation law. The Court of Chancery held that the limited partnership agreement here provided for such fiduciary duties by requiring the general partner and its controlling entity to treat the limited partn... More...    $0 (10-11-2002 - DE)