Title: D&D Manufacturing, LLC v. Envirokare Composite Corporation
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 141, 2024
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: May 20, 2024

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
D&D MANUFACTURING, LLC 
and DALE POLK JR., 
 
Defendants Below, 
Appellants, 
 
v. 
 
ENVIROKARE COMPOSITE 
CORPORATION, derivatively on 
behalf of Nominal Defendant LRM 
INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL, 
INC., 
 
Plaintiff Below, 
Appellee. 
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§  No. 141, 2024 
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§  Court Below—Court of Chancery 
§  of the State of Delaware 
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§ C.A. No. 2022-1202 
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Submitted: April 15, 2024 
Decided: 
May 20, 2024 
 
Before VALIHURA, TRAYNOR, and LEGROW, Justices. 
 
 
ORDER 
 
After consideration of the notice and supplemental notice of appeal from an 
interlocutory order and the exhibits, it appears to the Court that: 
(1) 
The defendant-appellants have petitioned this Court under Supreme 
Court Rule 42 to accept an interlocutory appeal from a Court of Chancery bench 
ruling, issued March 6, 2024, denying their motion to dismiss for lack of personal 
jurisdiction.  On March 20, 2024, the appellants filed an application for certification 
of an interlocutory appeal.  The appellees opposed the application.  The Court of 
 
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Chancery denied the application, finding that it was untimely and that the appellants 
had failed to demonstrate good cause to excuse their untimely application.  The 
Court of Chancery also concluded that the balance of the Rule 42(b) factors weighed 
against certifying the appeal. 
(2) 
In the exercise of our discretion,1 we conclude that the interlocutory 
appeal should be refused.  The application for certification was untimely because it 
was filed more than ten days after the Court of Chancery’s March 6, 2024 ruling, 
and the appellants did not establish good cause to excuse their untimely application.2 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the interlocutory appeal is 
REFUSED.   
BY THE COURT: 
/s/ Gary F. Traynor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
 
 
1 DEL. SUPR. CT. R. 42(d)(v). 
2 See id. R. 42(c)(i) (providing that the application for certification “shall be served and filed within 
10 days of the entry of the order from which the appeal is sought or such longer time as the trial 
court, in its discretion, may order for good cause shown”); id. R. 42(a) (“The Court’s jurisdiction 
to hear and determine appeals in civil cases from interlocutory orders of a trial court, including a 
trial court acting as an intermediate appellate court in the review of a ruling, decision or order of a 
court or an administrative agency, shall be exercised in accordance with this rule as to certification 
and acceptance of interlocutory appeals.  All time periods under this rule should be calculated 
under Supreme Court Rule 11.”); see also, e.g., Bayer-Highland Family Partnership, Ltd. v. RF 
Capital Holdings, LLC, 2018 WL 4360999 (Del. Sept. 13, 2018) (refusing interlocutory appeal 
where appellants did not establish good cause to excuse untimely filing of application for 
certification).