How is a Delaware rapid-arbitration cross-challenge timed?

Rule 6(b)(ii) identifies the later of seven days after service of the first timely notice and fifteen days after issuance of the final award. The agreement’s review terms and effective service also matter. This one-date preset does not establish both clocks or resolve the service qualification.

Responsible actor. Another party seeking review in the qualifying DRAA proceeding.

Read the qualifying agreement and its appellate-review terms.

Obtain the final award and first notice.

Establish effective service and both prescribed periods before comparing their boundaries.

Confirm DRAA applicability, a timely first challenge, effective notice service and the award’s actual issuance. Review the agreement before assuming judicial cross-review remains available.

1. First-notice service and final-award issuance, established separately
2. Establish each event, period and procedural branch described on this page before applying Rule 11. This guide supplies no single computed date.
3. Complete the applicable notice and attachments under Rules 6 and 7. Preserve service records, the final award and Supreme Court filing receipt.

Rule 11(a) excludes the event day. A prescribed period below seven days excludes intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Seven days and longer count those intermediate days. A final Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday or actual Clerk closure receives the stated next-open-day treatment. A backward five-day motion component counts earlier eligible days to preserve its required lead. Do not apply the separate Chancery or Superior Court eleven-day threshold.

The 2026 named calendar follows the Court’s published statewide holidays. The 2027 dates are projections of 1 Del. C. § 501 and its fixed-holiday observation rule. December 31, 2027 is the observed New Year holiday for Saturday, January 1, 2028. These dates do not confirm future amendments, Governor or Chief Justice appointments or actual additional closures. Sussex Return Day afternoon is not treated as a statewide full-day Supreme Court closure. Review any actual additional closure separately.

Rule 11(c) adds three days to a participant’s prescribed period after incoming service by mail or eFiling. Personal service adds none. The addition enters the period before Rule 11(a) counting and final-day treatment. It does not apply to Court acts or to an entry, filing, issuance or acceptance event merely because a copy is served. Rule 10(b) completes mail service on mailing. Rule 10.1(h) treats authorized electronic service like mail for the addition. A convenience email notification under Rule 10.2(6)(d) is not the service event.

Reviewed coverage uses the retained Supreme Court compilation current through February 2, 2026, for established events on or after that compilation boundary and final dates through December 31, 2027. The index label is not a new effective date for every civil rule. Historical events, backward periods crossing that boundary, later dates, changed orders and actual additional closures require separate review. No computed or paid date is supplied for an input outside that coverage. This boundary does not establish that an actual act is late.

Fictitious comparison. One party relies on award issuance; another examines service of the first timely challenge. Those events start different fifteen- and seven-day components. Mail or eFiling service also engages Rule 11(c). Preserve the award, timely first notice and actual service method before comparing the resulting boundaries. This guide supplies no isolated cross-challenge date.

Two distinct event-and-period branches plus actual service and agreement review. The isolated preset does not reproduce the controlling cross-challenge, so no computed date is published.

Different event from civil cross-appeal

Rule 6(b)(ii) says first-notice service. Civil Rule 6(b)(i) says first-notice filing.

Service qualification needs review

Rule 11(c) adds three days to a participant’s prescribed service-triggered period for mail or eFiling. Apply Rule 11(a) to that resulting component, then compare it with the independent award-issuance branch. The single-event preset does not perform that comparison.

Award review can be waived or replaced

Section 5809(d) permits specified review arrangements. A timely first notice does not erase the agreement’s review terms.

Participant service and Court acts

Rule 11(c) adds three days to a participant’s prescribed period after incoming service by mail or eFiling. Personal service adds none. The addition enters the period before Rule 11(a) counting and final-day treatment. It does not apply to Court acts or to an entry, filing, issuance or acceptance event merely because a copy is served. Rule 10(b) completes mail service on mailing. Rule 10.1(h) treats authorized electronic service like mail for the addition. A convenience email notification under Rule 10.2(6)(d) is not the service event.

Compilation and calendar coverage

Reviewed coverage uses the retained Supreme Court compilation current through February 2, 2026, for established events on or after that compilation boundary and final dates through December 31, 2027. The index label is not a new effective date for every civil rule. Historical events, backward periods crossing that boundary, later dates, changed orders and actual additional closures require separate review. No computed or paid date is supplied for an input outside that coverage. This boundary does not establish that an actual act is late.

• Confirm DRAA applicability, a timely first challenge, effective notice service and the award’s actual issuance. Review the agreement before assuming judicial cross-review remains available.
• Two distinct event-and-period branches plus actual service and agreement review. The isolated preset does not reproduce the controlling cross-challenge, so no computed date is published.

• Read the qualifying agreement and its appellate-review terms.
• Obtain the final award and first notice.
• Establish effective service and both prescribed periods before comparing their boundaries.
• Rule 6(b)(ii) says first-notice service. Civil Rule 6(b)(i) says first-notice filing.
• Rule 11(c) adds three days to a participant’s prescribed service-triggered period for mail or eFiling. Apply Rule 11(a) to that resulting component, then compare it with the independent award-issuance branch. The single-event preset does not perform that comparison.
• Section 5809(d) permits specified review arrangements. A timely first notice does not erase the agreement’s review terms.
• For the paper participants described in Rule 10, serve the required recipients and complete filing by actual Clerk or Deputy Clerk receipt during regular business hours. Mailing a filing on the final day does not establish receipt. Registered eFiling under Rules 10.1 and 10.2 uses the recorded completed transaction. In nonexpedited cases, ordinary electronic filings must finish by 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Notices of appeal and electronic filings in expedited cases must finish before midnight Eastern Time. Electronic service requires selection of recipients and submission through File & Serve. Preserve the receipt identifying date, time, method and recipients. The email notification alone is not service. Rule 10.2(10) permits relief for specified filing or service errors only upon satisfactory proof and a Court order; no automatic extension is calculated.