-

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Places Labor Day Print Advertisement: “Don’t Let the Chancery Court Steal From Workers This Labor Day”

The advertisement ran in Sunday’s Delaware News Journal and urged accountability for unelected Chancery Elite who trade off relationships and refuse to disclose conflicts of interest, such as Chancellor McCormick’s former representation of HIG, and cash in while working Delawareans are left behind

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness announced the launch of a Labor Day print advertisement exposing Delaware’s “Jabba the Hutt-like” elites including Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, former Chancellor and Supreme Court Justice Leo Strine, and longtime Chancery Court insider Kevin Shannon for enriching themselves while leaving working Delawareans behind. The advertisement calls out cushy conflicts of interest such as McCormick’s former representation of HIG before taking the bench and doling out judgements in the unsavory company’s favor.

Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement about the campaign: “Our campaign to expose Chancery insiders is just beginning. We can’t continue to allow insiders to control the system solely for their own benefit and enrichment. When powerful judges like Chancellor McCormick can ignore conflicts of interest and rule in favor of their former clients, like McCormick has done with HIG, then we know the system is rigged, just like Jabba the Hutt’s infamous court in Star Wars. We will continue to call out this unconscionable self-dealing and enrichment whenever and wherever we can so that the people of Delaware know what their so-called leaders are doing.”

Citizens for Judicial Fairness


Release Versions

More News From Citizens for Judicial Fairness

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Slams Outrageous Attorney Fees Awarded in Delaware Following Comprehensive New Study

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens for Judicial Fairness condemned the Delaware Court of Chancery’s outrageous attorney fee rewards following a new academic study that exposes how fees are spiraling out of control and disconnected from any meaningful measure of risk or performance. The study from three law school professors reveals that Chancery fee awards lack consistent benchmarks and routinely overreward a small group of insider law firms, including cases where judges approve...

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Celebrates Introduction of Wheelspin in Delaware’s Chancery Court, a Historic Win for Chancery Reform Advocates

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, following the announcement that Delaware’s Court of Chancery will introduce randomized, automated case assignments – or “wheelspin” – effective September 15, 2015, Citizens for Judicial Fairness released the following statement from TransPerfect Founder Phil Shawe “For over a decade, TransPerfect has fought for basic fairness in the Chancery Court. Adopting a randomized “wheelspin” method to decide what judge is assigned to a case--and taking that power...

Citizens for Judicial Fairness Slams Excessive Delaware Chancery Fees Following New Stanford Report

WILMINGTON, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citizens for Judicial Fairness today responded to a new Stanford study from renowned professor Joseph Grundfest that shows Delaware’s Chancery Court has become a national outlier in awarding excessive legal fees. The report, which analyzed thousands of cases, found that Delaware hands out attorney fee multipliers at a rate up to 57 times higher than federal courts – with some attorneys being paid as much as $35,000 an hour. The findings were highlighted in The...
Back to Newsroom