Title: Decembre v. Perdue Farms LLC, et al.

State: delaware

Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
MILOURDE DECEMBRE, 
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No. 336, 2017 
 
 
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Claimant-Appellant Below,  
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Appellant, 
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Court Below:  Superior Court 
 
v. 
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of the State of Delaware 
 
 
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PERDUE FARMS LLC, and 
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C.A. No. S16A-05-003 ESB 
BAYHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER, 
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INC., dba KENT GENERAL 
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HOSPITAL, 
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Employer-Appellees Below,  
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Appellees. 
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Submitted: March 21, 2018 
Decided:   March 22, 2018 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; VAUGHN, and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
We affirm the judgment of the Superior Court dated July 25, 2017.1  The sole 
issue fairly raised below and before us is whether the Industrial Accident Board 
(“IAB”) should have awarded counsel for the appellant an attorney’s charging lien.  
The IAB and Superior Court properly rejected that contention.  Whether there was 
another proper basis for the IAB to award attorney’s fees was not fairly argued to 
                                                 
1 Milourde Decembre v. Perdue Farms, LLC, C.A. No. S16A-05-003-ESB (Del. Super. Ct. July 
25, 2017). 
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the Superior Court or us, and therefore we have not considered any other basis for 
an award other than the one fairly argued.   
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Superior 
Court is hereby AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Leo E. Strine, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice