Hartley-Nagle v. State

OPINION

STRINE, Vice Chancellor.

This case involves a very unusual request. The plaintiffs, Karen M. Hartley-Nagle and Michael R. Dore, have sued the Family Court of this State and all the judges of that court (“Family Court Defendants”).1 In their complaint, the plaintiffs allege that on August 24, 2005 they attempted to attend a “Dependency/Neglect hearing at the Kent County Family Court”2 and “were denied access to attend the hearing by Judge William J. Walls.”3

Rather than challenging Judge Walls’s alleged decision to exclude their attendance through an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court,…