When seeking sanctions for spoliated evidence, the nature of the evidence and your jurisdiction can play a pivotal role. Are you in state or federal court? Is the missing evidence electronically ...
It is a well-established rule of the common law of evidence that a party's intentional destruction of written evidence relevant to proof of an issue at trial can support an inference that the evidence ...
A state trial court judge awarded two plaintiff medical companies nearly $850,000 in damages against a doctor for spoliation of evidence and violation the New Jersey Computer Related Offenses Act and ...
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (Legal Newsline) – An Illinois federal judge granted several motions to dismiss allegations that the defendants destroyed or spoiled evidence in an asbestos case after the ...
In SS&C Technologies Canada Corporation v. Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, the Supreme Court of Canada is expected to provide national guidance on spoliation — the intentional destruction of ...
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The court emphasized that: “A party is not obligated to preserve every shred of a paper, every e-mail or electronic document.” Slip op. at 14-15 and footnote 51. But the party must preserve what it ...
This week, New York's attorney general gave notice that she is ready for Trump's October 2 fraud trial. Buried in the notice was a threat: She may seek new penalties against Trump and the Trump ...