Title: Deputy v. Dr. J. Conlan
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 269, 2017
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: July 12, 2018

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
KENNETH T. DEPUTY, 
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No. 269, 2017 
 
Plaintiff Below,  
 
 
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Appellant,  
 
 
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Court Below:  Superior Court of the  
 
 
 
 
 
 
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State of Delaware 
 
v. 
 
 
 
 
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C.A. No. N12C-05-163 
DR. J. CONLAN, 
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Defendant Below,  
 
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Appellee. 
 
 
 
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Submitted: May 11, 2018 
Decided: 
July 12, 2018 
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; SEITZ and TRAYNOR, Justices. 
 
O R D E R 
 
This appeal is from the Superior Court’s order of June 20, 2017, granting 
summary judgment to the defendant-below/appellee, Dr. J. Conlan, in a consolidated 
action.1  Having considered the parties’ briefs on appeal and the Superior Court 
record, the Court has concluded that the appeal must be dismissed, without 
prejudice, for the appellant’s failure to comply with Supreme Court Rule 42 when 
filing an appeal from an interlocutory order.  The Superior Court’s order on appeal 
did not resolve the action against the State defendants—James Welch and Thomas 
                                
1 By order dated October 14, 2013, the Superior Court consolidated C.A. No. 07C-01-202 and 
C.A. No. N12C-05-163. 
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Carroll—and was not certified as a final judgment under Superior Court Civil Rule 
54b).2  In the absence of the Rule 54(b) certification, the appeal is interlocutory.   
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the appeal is DISMISSED 
without notice, sua sponte, under Supreme Court Rule 29(c).  The mandate shall 
issue forthwith. 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Gary F. Traynor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Justice 
                                
2 Harrison v. Ramunno, 730 A.2d 653, 653–54 (Del. 1999) (“When a civil action involves multiple 
claims and multiple parties, a judgment regarding any claim or any party does not become final 
until the entry of the last judgment that resolves all claims as to all parties unless an interlocutory 
ruling as to a claim or party is certified pursuant to Superior Court Rule 54(b).”)