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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

RIVERBEND COMMUNITY, LLC,  )  
a Delaware limited liability company,  ) No. 236, 2012  
and FOX CHASE REALTY, LLC,  )  
) Court Below: Superior Court  
Plaintiffs Below,  ) of the State of Delaware in  
Appellants,  ) and for New Castle County  
)  
v.  ) C.A. No. N10C-07-042  
)  
GREEN STONE ENGINEERING, LLC  )  
a Delaware limited liability company  )  
and BRUCE JONES,  )  
)  
Defendants Below,  )  
Appellees.  )  

Submitted: September 26, 2012 Decided: October 17, 2012 Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND and RIDGELY, Justices. Upon appeal from the Superior Court. AFFIRMED. Adam Balick (argued) and Melony Anderson, Balick & Balick, LLC, Wilmington, Delaware for appellants. Paul Cottrell and Patrick McGrory (argued), Tighe & Cottrell, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware for appellees.
STEELE, Chief Justice:

A subdivision developer signed a release with an engineering company after the completion of design services. We interpret the release as a general release. We do not address the application of the economic loss doctrine. Because we find the release is a general release that unambiguously waives all claims, we AFFIRM the grant of summary judgment below on both the tort and contract claims.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Riverbend Community, LLC and Parkway Gravel, Inc. jointly owned a parcel of land (the Property), which they intended to develop into residential real estate. In 2004, the previous owner obtained a jurisdictional delineation (JD) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which identified the federal wetlands on the Property. The 2004 JD depicted the wetlands running across the Causeway, an

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