Title: Banner v. Merit Employee Relations Board
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 449, 2017
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 18, 2018

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
TUESDAY S. BANNER, 
 
 
Appellant Below, 
Appellant/Cross-Appellee, 
 
v. 
 
DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF 
HEALTH SOCIAL SERVICES, 
DIVISION FOR THE VISUALLY 
IMPAIRED, 
 
Appellee Below, 
Appellee/Cross-Appellant, 
 
and the 
 
MERIT EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 
BOARD, 
 
Appellee Below, 
Appellee. 
 
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§  No. 449, 2017 
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§  Court Below—Superior Court 
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§  C.A. Nos. N16A-07-009, 
§  N14A-03-001 
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  Submitted:  
 May 11, 2018 
 
 
 
 
  Decided:  July 18, 2018 
 
Before VAUGHN, SEITZ, and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 This 18th day of July 2018, after careful consideration of the parties’ briefs 
and the record on appeal, we conclude that the judgment below should be affirmed 
on the basis of, and for the reasons stated in, the Superior Court’s well-reasoned 
decision dated September 29, 2017.  Although we question the Superior Court’s 
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interpretation, in its September 28, 2015 decision reversing and remanding the 
decision of the Merit Employee Relations Board, of 29 Del. C. § 10122 to require 
twenty-days advance notice of a change in the start time of a previously noticed 
hearing due to weather conditions, we conclude that the cross-appeal is moot in light 
of our affirmance of the Superior Court’s September 29, 2017 decision.   
 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Superior 
Court is AFFIRMED.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice