Notable Accomplishments
- Successfully defended and upheld the constitutionality of the landmark Delaware Child Victim’s Act of 2007 over a due process challenge by the Catholic Church in Whitwell v. Archmere Academy, Inc., 2008 WL 1735370 (Del.Super. April 16, 2008).
- Largest priest-pedophile jury verdict in the history of the State of Delaware; $41,000,000 in Whitwell v. Smith, C.A.No. 05-796-SLR (D.Del.).
- Achieved first State of Delaware court decision recognizing repressed memory or traumatic amnesia as a valid means of tolling the statute of limitations in cases of childhood sexual abuse in Eden v. Oblates of St. Francis DeSales, 2006 WL 3512482 (Del.Super. Dec. 4, 2006).
- After a three year federal court battle, forcing the Pentagon to nullify a written reprimand given to decorated Air Force Sergeant Jason A. Adkins after he spoke out against a tainted anthrax vaccine being administered to servicemen and women at Dover Air Force Base. After repeatedly defeating the federal government’s efforts to dismiss the entire case, the Pentagon finally settled and agreed that the reprimand was nullified and “deemed to be of no effect.”
- Protecting the rights of dedicated psychiatrists such as David T. Springer, M.D., to blow the whistle on patient abuse and expose grave threats to the health and safety of patients in state psychiatric hospitals.
