Title: Simmons v. Pruitt, et al.
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 701, 2014
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: June 24, 2015

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
ARCHIE SIMMONS, JR.,  
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No. 701, 2014 
 
Plaintiff-Below, Appellant, 
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Court Below:  Superior Court 
v.  
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of the State of Delaware, 
 
 
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in and for New Castle County 
CYNTHIA H. PRUITT, ESQUIRE, 
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and DOROSHOW, PASQUALE,  
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KRAWITZ & BHAYA, 
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C.A. No. N13C-07-076 (EMD) 
 
 
 
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Defendants-Below, Appellees. 
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Submitted:  June 24, 2015 
Decided:  June 24, 2015 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; HOLLAND and VAUGHN, Justices.  
O R D E R 
This 24th day of June 2015, upon consideration of the parties’ briefs and the 
record below, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
The appellant in this case concedes that the resolution of his appeal depends 
on this Court’s decision in another case pressed by the appellant’s counsel, Blue 
Hen v. Little Sisters of the Poor.1  The appellant here suffered a dismissal of his 
claim for malicious prosecution when the Superior Court, as in Blue Hen, refused 
to extend the tort of malicious prosecution to cover a situation when the plaintiff 
had probable cause to pursue litigation in good faith in the first instance but at 
                                          
 
1 Blue Hen Mech., Inc. v. Christian Bros. Risk Pooling Trust, 2015 WL 3745640 (Del. June 15, 
2015). 
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some point later in the litigation allegedly came to lack a good faith basis to persist 
in pressing his claims. 
(2) 
Because we affirmed the Superior Court’s decision in Blue Hen, the 
appellant has conceded that his present appeal must be rejected and the stipulation 
for summary judgment and accompanying order of the Superior Court must be 
affirmed.   
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the judgment of the 
Superior Court is AFFIRMED.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Leo E. Strine, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chief Justice