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Courts of Delaware include: State courts of Delaware. Delaware Supreme Court [1] Delaware Court of Chancery [2] Delaware Superior Court (3 courts, one for each county) [3] Delaware Family Court [4] Delaware Court of Common Pleas [5] Delaware Justice of the Peace Court; Delaware Alderman's Court; Federal courts located in Delaware. United States ...
It is one of Delaware's three constitutional courts, along with the Supreme Court and Superior Court. Since 2018, the court consists of seven judges. Since 2018, the court consists of seven judges. The court is known for being a hub for corporate governance litigation in the United States, as two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated ...
Male juveniles of ages 16 through 18 who are sentenced as adults by the Delaware Superior Court or who are found "non-amenable" by a Delaware family court are held in the Young Criminal Offenders Program (YCOP) in the Delaware Department of Correction Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington. The YCOP can hold 40 boys and is ...
The Delaware Superior Court, previously known as the Superior Court and Orphans' Court, is the state trial court of general jurisdiction in the state of Delaware. It has original jurisdiction over most criminal and civil cases (except for suits at equity , which are handled by the Delaware Court of Chancery ).
The Court in its current form was established by means of a constitutional amendment in 1951. Before that, the Court had operated under the Delaware Constitution of 1897 as a unique "leftover-judge" system, wherein appeals were heard by a panel of three judges who were not involved in the matter on appeal from either the Superior Court or the Court of Chancery.
On October 13, 2015, Delaware Governor Jack Markell nominated Montgomery-Reeves to the Delaware Court of Chancery to succeed Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons [6] On October 24, 2019, Governor John Carney announced the nomination of Montgomery-Reeves to be a justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy left by the elevation of Collins J. Seitz Jr. to Chief Justice. [7]
First (openly lesbian) female (President of the Delaware Superior Court): Jan R. Jurden in 2015 [18] [19] First African American (female) (Supreme Court of Delaware): Tamika Montgomery-Reeves in 2020 [20] First African American females (Delaware Court of Common Pleas): Rae M. Sims and Monica A. Horton in 2020 [21] [22]. Horton, who is biracial ...
The court was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. From its establishment until 1946, the court had a single judge. A temporary additional judgeship was authorized on July 24, 1946, by 60 Stat. 654, and was made permanent on September 5, 1950, by 64 Stat. 578.