Delaware Chancery Refuses to Consider Vox Media Defamation Claim

Delaware’s Court of Chancery ruled it has no jurisdiction to decide defamation claims, in a case involving a tech entrepreneur who sued over two online articles.

“I conclude that, in connection with in a claim for defamation, the Court of Chancery, in all instances, lacks subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate the questions of whether a defendant made a false statement about the plaintiff and whether it did so with actual malice,” Vice Chancellor Joseph R. Slights III wrote in an opinion June 27.

Stephen G. Perlman, founder and chief executive officer of two technology companies, Rearden and Artemis, sued Vox ...