BECK v. ATLANTIC COAST PLC

C.A. No. 303-N.

868 A.2d 840 (2005)

Heinrich BECK, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, Plaintiff, v. ATLANTIC COAST PLC, a Foreign Corp.; Digital Millennium, Inc.; Salaman Zafar; and John Does A through L, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: February 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Sullivan, and David E. Wilks, Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C., Wilmington; Darrell W. Scott, The Scott Law Group, Spokane, WA; Eric J. Roth, Lukins & Annis, P.S., Spokane, WA, for Plaintiff.

Kurt M. Heyman and Patricia L. Enerio, The Bayard Firm, Wilmington, for Defendant Atlantic Coast, PLC.


OPINION

STRINE, Vice Chancellor.

I regret having to write this opinion. But the plaintiffs' lawyers have given me no choice, having failed to acknowledge their own responsibility for wasting the time of this court and of a defendant in this purported class action by filing false pleadings and failing to produce documents clearly within the scope of a valid request for production. By their conduct, the plaintiff and his lawyers have made this litigation unduly...

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