Title: Professional Investigating & Consulting Agency, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 108, 2016
State: Delaware
Issuer: Delaware Supreme Court
Date: October 12, 2016

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE 
 
PROFESSIONAL INVESTIGATING § 
& CONSULTING AGENCY, INC., §  
No. 108, 2016 
dba PICA,  
 
 
 
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Plaintiff Below, 
 
 
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Appellant,  
 
 
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Court Below - Superior Court 
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of the State of Delaware  
v. 
 
 
 
 
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C.A. No. N12C-06-196 
HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, 
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Defendant Below,  
 
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Appellee. 
 
 
 
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Submitted:   September 29, 2016 
Decided:   October 12, 2016   
 
Before STRINE, Chief Justice; VALIHURA, and SEITZ, Justices. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
On this 12th day of October 2016, after careful consideration of the parties’ 
briefs and the record on appeal, we find it evident that the final judgment of the 
Superior Court should be affirmed.  PICA has appealed the Superior Court’s denial 
of PICA’s request for fees and expenses incurred on appeal.  In its original appeal 
before this Court, PICA did not request appellate fees and expenses, nor did it ask 
that any affirmance of the judgment below be tempered by a remand to have the 
Superior Court determine whether its original final judgment should be 
supplemented by an award of appellate fees and expenses.   If PICA believed that 
the fees and expenses it incurred on appeal should be borne by the other side, it 
 
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should have made the request in its appellate filings, which would have allowed for 
a timely, orderly, and efficient consideration of the request by this Court.  PICA 
did not do so, and therefore it is not entitled to have the Superior Court award such 
fees and costs.  For this reason, the appeal is without merit and the judgment of the 
Superior Court is AFFIRMED. 
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the judgment of the Superior 
Court is AFFIRMED. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BY THE COURT: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ Collins J. Seitz, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Justice