Delaware Supreme Court

Extracted Attributes

• Headquarters

  Wilmington, Delaware, United States

• Jurisdiction

  Delaware, United States

• Chief Justice

  Collins J. Seitz Jr.

• Inception Date

  1841-01-01

• Primary Legal Focus

  Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions

• Separate Court Established

  1951

Timeline

• Initial inception of the Delaware Supreme Court. (Source: Wikidata)

  1841-01-01

• Delaware becomes the last state in the union to create a separate Supreme Court. (Source: Delaware Courts History)

  1951-01-01

• C.J. Seitz is sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. (Source: Delaware Courts Judicial Officers)

  2019-11-08

• Abigail M. LeGrow is sworn in for her first term as Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. (Source: Delaware Courts Judicial Officers)

  2023-05-11

• The All-In Podcast discusses the voiding of Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package and the upcoming appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. (Source: All-In Podcast Episode 164)

  2024-02-02

Delaware Supreme Court

The Delaware Supreme Court is the sole appellate court in the United States state of Delaware. Because Delaware is a popular haven for corporations, the Court has developed a worldwide reputation as a respected source of corporate law decisions, particularly in the area of mergers and acquisitions.

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• History of the Supreme Court - Delaware Courts

  Finally, in 1949, to the amazement of the bill's supporters, a separate Supreme Court for Delaware was an idea whose time had come - at least for a first "leg." Each house passed the legislation without a negative vote. The climax came in 1951 when Delaware became the last state in the union to create a separate Supreme Court. The Senate had some doubters with its thirteen to four vote, but the House had none: thirty-four to nothing. [...] Beard v. Elster, Del. Supr., 160 A.2d 731 (1960); and Warshaw v. Calhoun, Del. Supr., 221 A.2d 487 (1966). At memorial proceedings when the court convened in special session following Chief Justice Wolcott's death, his former partner, William S. Potter, stated: [...] > "In spite of the odd arrangement of the old Delaware judicial structure the Supreme Court between the years of 1900 and 1950 was able to meet the jurisprudential needs of the state with a dispatch that few would have conceded possible without knowing the facts. Even though there was strong opposition to the continuance of the old Court, one cannot help feeling that something unique was taken from the state when the old court died. The former Supreme Court of Delaware was like an old oak. The

• Judicial Officers - Supreme Court - Delaware Courts

  The Honorable Abigail M. LeGrow was sworn in for her first term as Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on May 11, 2023. She previously served as a Judge of the Superior Court of Delaware from February 2016 to May 2023, where she was a member of the Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division. Before her appointment to Superior Court, Justice LeGrow served as Master in Chancery on the Delaware Court of Chancery from October 2011 to February 2016. [...] Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Traynor served on the Delaware Supreme Court’s Board on Professional Responsibility from 2011 to 2017, and was an appointed member of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals’ Task Force on Management of Death Penalty Litigation from 1998 to 2001. Justice Traynor is a past-President of the Terry-Carey American Inn of Court. [...] On November 8, 2019, C.J. Seitz was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. He has served as a Supreme Court Justice since 2015. Prior to his appointment, Chief Justice Seitz founded a corporate advisory and litigation firm in Wilmington, Delaware representing clients in corporate and trust disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Supreme Court. He was also a long-time partner in a Wilmington, Delaware law firm, where he litigated corporate and intellectual

• 2025 Delaware Year in Review | Insights - Holland & Knight

  Finally, the Delaware Supreme Court's Dec. 19, 2025, decision reinstating Elon Musk's pay package, reported in the media to now be worth $140 billion or more, put an end to the multiyear Musk compensation saga.5 The decision avoided any analysis of the conduct of Musk or Tesla's board and did not address the Chancery Court's underlying determinations concerning the process for approval of the pay package. Instead, the court focused on the appropriateness of the remedy of rescission. In this [...] First, in Maffei v. Palkon,1 the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Chancery Court's decision concluding that TripAdvisor's DeExit to Nevada was a form of conflicted transaction that fell outside the protections of the business judgment rule. The court rejected the contention that the company's insiders received a non-ratable benefit of avoiding future litigation risks by moving to Nevada. The court held that the risk of future litigation is not the type of benefit that warrants entire [...] As the curtain comes down on 2025, we have an answer: Delaware is Back! Late on Dec. 19, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court overturned the Tornetta v. Musk decision, ruling that without consideration of whether Musk's pay package was the result of breaches of fiduciary duty, rescission of the package six years after the fact, after Musk had delivered on his end of the bargain and, with no way to "unscramble the eggs," was fundamentally inequitable to Musk. Instead, the plaintiffs were awarded $1

• Opinions & Orders - Delaware Courts

  © 2025 The Delaware Judiciary - courts.delaware.gov [...] Self-Help Feedback Delaware Courts - The Offical Website of the Delaware Judiciary # Opinions and Orders Please note: These electronic orders may contain computer-generated errors or other deviations from the official printed versions. In case of discrepancies between the print and electronic versions of orders, the print version controls. In case of discrepancies between the print and electronic versions of orders and any later official version of them, the later version controls. [...] No results found. Please adjust your filters or search terms and try again. The Official Website of the Delaware Judiciary Change Your Text Size: Make Text Size Smaller Reset Text Size Make Text Size Bigger Hours & Locations Self-Help Civil Case Search Traffic EPayments For the Public For Jurors For Attorneys For the Media Topics Accessibility Material en español Access to Justice Careers Feedback Delaware Courts logo Delaware Courts Home | Terms of Use | Delaware.gov

• Judge's Profiles - About Us - Superior Court - Delaware Courts

  The Honorable Patricia A. Winston was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware by Governor John C. Carney, Jr. on June 1, 2022. View Profile of Patricia A. Winston Judge Sean P. Lugg The Honorable Sean P. Lugg was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware by Governor John C. Carney, Jr. on April 3, 2023. View Profile of Sean P. Lugg Judge Kathleen M. Miller [...] The Honorable Kathleen M. Miller was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware by Governor John C. Carney, Jr. on September 27, 2023. View Profile of Kathleen M. Miller Judge Kathleen M. Vavala The Honorable Kathleen M. Vavala was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware by John C. Carney, Jr. on May 15, 2024. View Profile of Kathleen M. Vavala Judge Sonia Augusthy [...] The Honorable Sheldon K. Rennie was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware by Governor John C. Carney, Jr. on April 27, 2018. View Profile of Sheldon K. Rennie Resident Judge Craig A. Karsnitz The Honorable Craig A. Karsnitz was appointed to the Superior Court of Delaware by Governor John C. Carney, Jr. on October 22, 2018, he was appointed Resident Judge for Sussex County on February 2, 2021. View Profile of Craig A. Karsnitz Judge Meghan A. Adams

• Country

  United States

• Located In

  Delaware

• Instance Of

  Q7603882

• Coordinates

  Lat: 39.7433, Lon: -75.5461

• Inception Date

  1/1/1841