Because of the extensive experience of the Delaware courts, Delaware has a more well-developed body of case law than other states, which serves to give corporations and their counsel greater guidance on matters of corporate governance and transaction liability issues.

A long legal battle, Guth v. Loft, then ensued, with the case reaching the Delaware Supreme Court and ultimately ending in a loss for Guth.

In 2011-11, GPHI filed another patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc. in Delaware involving more patents than their original patent infringement case against Apple last November, for alleged violation of US patents 6, 650, 327 (' 327 ), (' 145 ) and (' 881 ).

Over a century later, it was decided in the case of Penn v. Lord Baltimore that because the Dutch had colonized Zwaanendael in 1631, that portion of Maryland's charter granting Delaware to Maryland was void.

The case of Brown v. Board of Education as heard before the Supreme Court combined five cases: Brown itself, Briggs v. Elliott ( filed in South Carolina ), Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County ( filed in Virginia ), Gebhart v. Belton ( filed in Delaware ), and Bolling v. Sharpe ( filed in Washington D. C .).

The Gebhart case was the only one where a trial court, affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court, found that discrimination was unlawful ; in all the other cases the plaintiffs had lost as the original courts had found discrimination to be lawful.

Kent County, Delaware, is one of the few counties in the United States to border its namesake in another state — in this case, Kent County, Maryland.

U. S. Attorney Colm F. Connolly built the case against Capano, who was tried and convicted, then sentenced by Delaware Superior Court Judge William Swain Lee.

1952 ), was a case decided by the Delaware Court of Chancery in 1952 and affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court in the same year.

The next day, Delaware Attorney Young called and told Claymont Superintendent Stahl to " send the children home " because the cases were being appealed and eventually became part of the Brown v. Board case.

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In Delaware, then known as the " Three Lower Counties " of the Penn proprietors, assembly members held informal meetings in each of the three counties, in each case selecting the same three delegates.

Parretti was later convicted of perjury and evidence tampering in a Delaware court for statements he made in a 1991 civil case, brought by Credit Lyonnais to validate their removal of Parretti, to the effect that a document he claimed allowed him to retain control of MGM was authentic ;

The United States District Court for the District of Delaware ( in case citations, D.

In January 2006, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed Capano's conviction but remanded the case for sentencing because the death penalty was imposed by a non-unanimous jury verdict.

Blue Hen ( In this case, a rooster )-State Bird of Delaware

The case filed in Delaware alleged breach of warranty, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, violation of the duty of good faith and fair dealing and breach of contract claims in connection with the acquisition.

The court's opinion for the first case contains an extensive history of the claims to this territory, and the second memorably enjoins New Jersey and Delaware from ever disputing their jurisdictions again.

In 2006, Munoz was criticized by a Delaware judge for allegedly misrepresenting his credentials as an expert witness in a medical malpractice case.

His masterly analysis of moral insanity on the trial of Huntington, his argument in the court of appeals in the New Haven railroad case, his elaborate speech in the suit of the Delaware and Hudson Canal company vs.

The case was heard in Delaware on May 29, 2009 by Judge Christopher Sontchi where Visteon was granted Chapter 11 protection.

He agreed that an International Shoe-type minimum contacts analysis was appropriate, but asserted that in this case minimum contacts would have been found because the directors " voluntarily associated themselves with the State of Delaware ... by entering into a long-term and fragile relationship with one of its domestic corporations.

South of Laurel Grove Cemetery, and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State Rock, from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as New York, simply by spinning around on his heel.

In addition, the right to vote the General Motors stock held by Du Pont was to be vested in Du Pont's stockholders, other than Christiana and Delaware and the stockholders of Delaware ; ;

The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U. S., in June 1999.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.

Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

Most of the boundary between Delaware and Pennsylvania was originally defined by an arc extending from the cupola of the courthouse in the city of New Castle.

The Wedge of land between the northwest part of the arc and the Maryland border was claimed by both Delaware and Pennsylvania until 1921, when Delaware's claim was confirmed.

Before Delaware was settled by European colonists, the area was home to the Eastern Algonquian tribes known as the Unami Lenape or Delaware throughout the Delaware valley, and the Nanticoke along the rivers leading into the Chesapeake Bay.

The fact that Delaware and Pennsylvania shared the same governor was not unique.

The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.

At the onset of the Civil War, Delaware was only nominally a slave state, and it remained in the Union.

The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Delaware was 907, 135 on July 1, 2011, a 1. 02 % increase since the 2010 United States Census.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

The state with the fewest counties is Delaware ( 3 ), though it is unique among the United States in that each Delaware county is divided into units called " hundreds ".

The Transpeninsular Line was responsible for the founding of this unique bi-state town because the Charter of the Delaware Railroad Company permitted only the building of a railroad within the State of Delaware and the charter of the corresponding railroad company in Maryland permitted only the laying of railroad track within the State of Maryland.

The Transpeninsular Line was responsible for the founding of this unique bi-state town because the Charter of the Delaware Railroad Company permitted only the building of a railroad within the State of Delaware and the charter of the corresponding railroad company in Maryland permitted only the laying of railroad track within the State of Maryland.

The Mason-Dixon line is said to have legally resolved vague outlines in the overlap between Maryland and Pennsylvania, which pretty much awarded Delaware to Pennsylvania, although Delaware would eventually prove too independent for legislation north of New Castle ( as well as that from the southerly Chesapeake Bay ), leading to the separation from Pennsylvania and unique pioneer status as America's first state, tied to neither province's destiny.

Following the War of 1812 Delaware was unique in continuing to have a viable Federalist Party.

The store is set in an unnamed city in Delaware, and like the employees, is eclectic and unique.

Upper Black Eddy originates from the Black family who operated a hotel at this point of Delaware River and did share part of its unique name with the former village of ( Lower Black Eddy ) now known as Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania.