Delaware Legal Overview: Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland The Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland metropolitan area, otherwise known as the Delaware Valley, includes 13 counties in four different states. Apart from New Castle County in Delaware and Cecil County in Maryland, the metro area includes five counties in New Jersey and six in Pennsylvania. Another way of looking at it would be as three separate constituent metro areas put together. This includes the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Reading, and Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton metros. The main cities and towns in the Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland metro area are as listed below.
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1. The judicial system available to each resident in the metro depends on the exact location within the metro in terms of the state, judicial district, county and city. For example, residents of Wilmington, DE have the Superior Court of New Castle County as their main trial court with general jurisdiction over all civil and criminal cases. Delaware corporation disputes between companies can be heard by the Court of the Chancery, also in Wilmington. New Castle County additionally has a separate family court. 2. Bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC has agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with former workers who had filed suit in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, alleging inadequate workers' compensation after being laid-off. 3. MoneyGram International Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a consolidated lawsuit filed in the Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington by shareholders who claimed to be shortchanged by a recapitalization plan.
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Trending Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland Legal Topics: There are two Justice of the Peace courts (13 and 20) for civil and criminal cases respectively in Wilmington. The justice court for civil cases has original jurisdiction over cases not exceeding $50,000. Another court of common pleas has limited jurisdiction over civil complaints not exceeding $15,000. Appeals from all these lower courts may be heard by the Delaware Supreme Court, which is the state's only appellate court. Federal cases may be filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, which is based in Wilmington. |