Motion for Sanctions Denied Based On Court’s Lack of Inherent Authority to Sanction And Where Parties Did Not Engage In A Rule 37(e) Analysis … Read more » Court Permits Plaintiff and Defendants to Present Evidence to Jury Concerning the Loss of Relevant ESI … Read more » Court Denies Appeal of Magistrate Judge’s Order Denying Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence and Pattern of Discovery Abuse … Read more » Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Denied In Light Of Failure To Prove Intent To Deprive … Read more » Court Denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions After Finding Rule 37(e) Did Not Support Adverse Inference Instruction … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint … Read more » Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Permits Plaintiff and Defendants to Present Evidence to Jury Concerning the Loss of Relevant ESI … Read more » Court Denies Appeal of Magistrate Judge’s Order Denying Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence and Pattern of Discovery Abuse … Read more » Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Denied In Light Of Failure To Prove Intent To Deprive … Read more » Court Denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions After Finding Rule 37(e) Did Not Support Adverse Inference Instruction … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint … Read more » Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Appeal of Magistrate Judge’s Order Denying Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence and Pattern of Discovery Abuse … Read more » Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Denied In Light Of Failure To Prove Intent To Deprive … Read more » Court Denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions After Finding Rule 37(e) Did Not Support Adverse Inference Instruction … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint … Read more » Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Denied In Light Of Failure To Prove Intent To Deprive … Read more » Court Denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions After Finding Rule 37(e) Did Not Support Adverse Inference Instruction … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint … Read more » Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions After Finding Rule 37(e) Did Not Support Adverse Inference Instruction … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint … Read more » Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint … Read more » Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Defendant Sanctioned For Blanket AEO Designations … Read more » Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Refusal to Pay Hacker’s Ransom Is Not Spoliation under Rule 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff Permitted to Amend Complaint to Add State Law Claim for Intentional Spoliation of Evidence Instead of Seeking Spoliation Sanctions Through a Discovery Motion … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Inferences Denied After Finding Plaintiff Lacked Sufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiffs’ Motion for Spoliation Granted After Court Found Defendants’ Failure to Preserve Relevant Electronically Stored Information … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanction Denied After Finding Defendants Had No Duty to Preserve … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part II … Read more » Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation Granted Under Federal Rules 37(e) and Rule 37(c)(1) – Part I … Read more » Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Request For Award Of Attorneys’ Fees for Entire Case As A Result of Spoliation Deemed Improper … Read more » Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Default Judgment Recommended by Magistrate Judge Following Defendants’ Repeated Violations of Discovery Orders … Read more » Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Rule 37 Sanctions Awarded Arising From Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve and Deletion of Snapchat Data … Read more » Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion To Permit Introduction of Spoliation Evidence At Trial Granted … Read more » Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Evidence Of Defendants’ Intentional Destruction Of Encryption Keys Permitted To Be Presented To Jury … Read more » Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion In Limine To Exclude Evidence of Plaintiffs’ Allegations of Spoliation Overruled … Read more » Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Cruise Line’s Alleged Failure To Preserve Video Was No Basis For Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Spoliation Sanctions Motion Denied In Cruise Line Slip and Fall Case … Read more » Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Orders Litigation Hold Notice To Be Produced … Read more » Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Spoliation Sanctions Where Party Failed to Satisfy Elements of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Magistrate Judge Recommends Adverse Jury Instructions and Grants Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Emails and Text Messages … Read more » In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
In Denying Forensic Exam, Court Rules that FRCP 34(a) Does Not Create A Routine Right of Direct Access To Electronic Information Systems … Read more » In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
In Slip And Fall Case, Motion For Spoliation Of Video Denied Where No Duty to Preserve Video Arose Until After Lawsuit Was Filed … Read more » Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Use Of Messaging App To Auto Delete Text Messages During Discovery Phase of Case Was In Bad Faith … Read more » Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff Not Precluded From Introducing Evidence Regarding Missing ESI … Read more » Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Protocol Which Deprived Defendants Opportunity to Review for Privilege Vacated … Read more » Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Sanctions Granted Due To Defendant “Willfully” Acting To Prevent Plaintiff From Accessing Photographic Evidence … Read more » Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Failure To Preserve Police Dash Cam Video Results in Sanctions … Read more » Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Failure To Disclose And Subsequent Deletion of Social Media Account Leads to Adverse Inference Sanction … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Plaintiff’s Request For Adverse Inference Due To Plaintiff’s Failure to Demonstrate Defendant’s Intent … Read more » Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Magistrate Judge Recommends Default Judgment Against Defendants For Wide-Scale Discovery Misconduct … Read more » Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion For Sanctions Denied On Grounds of Failure to Establish Prejudice, Despite Finding Defendant’s Clear Failure to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Judge Rules that Two-year Knowledge of Spoliation Prior to Filing of Motion Makes It “Untimely” … Read more » Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Judge Rules There is No Duty on Non-Parties to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Motion For Sanction Denied Where No Prejudiced Shown … Read more » No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Spoliation For Lost Emails Under FRCP 37(e) Where Potential Prejudice is Purely Speculative … Read more » Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Defendants Sanctioned in Prince Music Dispute for Wiping Cell Phones … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Spoliation Where Defendant Unintentionally Loses Key Surveillance Video Footage … Read more » Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Lack of Intent to Deprive Means No Spoliation Sanctions Where Defendant Copied and Later Deleted Plaintiff’s Email … Read more » Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Defendant Fails to Show Plaintiff Destroyed ESI; Court Denies Motion for Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Declines to Impose Spoliation Sanctions Where Yahoo! Deleted Defendant’s Emails … Read more » Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Grants Partially Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Destroyed Video Footage … Read more » Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Grants Spoliation Sanctions for Deleted Social Media Accounts … Read more » Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Destruction of Cell Phone Records, Lies Under Oath Considered by Court In Motion for Sanctions … Read more » Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies “Reasonably Foreseeable” Test for Duty to Preserve Evidence … Read more » Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Determines Timeliness of Defendant’s Spoliation Sanctions Motion … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence Due to Lack of Intentional Destruction … Read more » No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Spoliation by US Department of Labor Based on Sovereign Immunity … Read more » Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Considers Spoliation Sanction Motion Re Loss of Photographs Taken by Adjuster in Insurance Claim Case … Read more » Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Grants Plaintiff Motion for Spoliation Sanctions After Defendant Nurse Disposes of Contemporaneous Accident Notes … Read more » Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Summary Judgment Denied After Court Finds Defendant Altered Skype Communication Records … Read more » Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Finds Failure to Preserve Evidence Amounted to Negligence and Warranted Sanctions … Read more » Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Considers Sanction Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim in Design Defect Case … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Intentionally Deletes Relevant Audio Recording … Read more » Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Imposes Adverse Inference Sanctions After Finding Plaintiff Intentionally Spoliated Evidence After Fire … Read more » Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Reserved Its Right to Impose an Adverse Inference Instruction for ESI Spoliation in Google’s Driver-less Car Dispute Against Uber; Parties Reached a $245 Million Settlement Shortly Thereafter … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Spoliation Sanction Ruling Affirmed, Defendant Destroyed Records Although Had Already Contemplated Litigation Re Asbestos … Read more » In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
In Deciding Spoliation Sanctions Motion, Court Determines if Police Defendants Intended to Destroy Cell Phones … Read more » In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
In Sanctions Motion Based Upon Spoliation Claim, Plaintiff Claims Defendant Acted with Intent to Deprive Him of ESI … Read more » No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Spoliation Sanctions Where Moving Party Offered No Proof of Intent … Read more » Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case … Read more » No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No New Trial in Case Where Court Imposed $5 Million Fine for Defendant’s Spoliation … Read more » Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute … Read more » Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Dismisses Case, Finding No Facts To Support Spoliation of Evidence … Read more » Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions When Evidence Requested Was Not Lost and Plaintiff Was Not Prejudiced By Deprivation of Information … Read more » Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff … Read more » Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Grants Defendant’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence After Plaintiff Admits to Destroying a Journal Which Should Have Been Produced … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails … Read more » Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Refuses to Enter Default Judgment Where Defendant Negligently Destroyed Video of Slip and Fall … Read more » Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Finds Evidence of Spoliation in Employment Discrimination Action, Orders “Missing Evidence” Instruction Be Given to Jury … Read more » Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Declines to Answer Spoliation Question from Parties, Instead Discloses Instructions to Jury Regarding Spoliation … Read more » District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
District Court Orders In Camera Examination of Privilege Log Documents, Overturning Magistrate’s Order … Read more » District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
District Court Disagrees with Magistrate Over Privilege Waiver After Plaintiff Places Privileged Files on Public Shared Drive … Read more » Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Orders Adverse Inference Sanctions Against Defendant in Lynyrd Skynyrd Litigation, Arising From 3rd Party Spoliation of Text Messages … Read more » Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Third-Party Production Reveals that Defendant Deleted Emails; Court Issues Spoliation Sanctions … Read more » Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Finds Defendants’ Actions Unreasonable and Sufficient to Support a Finding They Acted with the Intent to Deprive Plaintiff of Evidence … Read more » Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Allows Evidentiary Sanction After Grocery Store Inadvertently Destroys Slip and Fall Evidence … Read more » Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Levels Interim Sanctions Against Party Who Admittedly Spoliated Evidence; Terminating Sanction May Follow … Read more » Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Imposes Sanctions on Parties for Willful Violations of Discovery Rules … Read more » Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Rejects Request for Adverse Inference Instruction Where Plaintiff Fails to Prove Intent … Read more » U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
U.S. 3rd Circuit Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Spoliation Sanction; Outlines Moving Party’s Insufficient Showing re Bad Faith Intent … Read more » Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Finds Defendant’s Failure to Preserve a Car’s Electronic Control Module Constitutes Spoliation … Read more » Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Denies Motion for Sanctions When Spoliation Threshold Not Met. … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Evidence … Read more » In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
In Insurance Fraud Case, Judge Rules Plaintiff Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
When Electronically Stored Information That Should Have Been Preserved Was Lost, the Court Interpreted It as Intent to Deprive … Read more » Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Even Without Ill Intent, Plaintiff’s Failure to Preserve ESI on Cell Phone Still Leads to Sanctions … Read more » Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Sanctions Wells Fargo For Failure to Obey an ESI Discovery Order … Read more » Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Will Hard Copy Production of Data Requested in Discovery Prevent Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence? … Read more » Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Taylor Swift Seeks Adverse Inference Sanction for Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff Unable to Establish Spoliation Despite Suspicious Activity … Read more » Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Defendant Seeking Evidentiary Sanctions for Discovery Disputes … Read more » No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Duty To Protect Data from Unpredictable Act of Nature … Read more » County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
County Sanctioned in Civil Rights Case for Failing to Preserve Video of Jailhouse Beatings … Read more » CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
CFTC Awarded Sanctions for Contempt as to Fraud Defendant … Read more » Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Spoliation Sanction Motion for Erasure of Truck Accident ECM Data Denied Due to Lack of Custody, Insufficient Evidence … Read more » Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff Accused of Insurance Fraud Found to have Spoliated Cell Phone Evidence … Read more » No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No New Trial Despite Evidence of Potential Email Spoliation in FLSA Case … Read more » No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Spoliation Found where Google Chrome Web History Automatically Deleted Prior to Litigation Hold … Read more » Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Fourth Circuit Affirms Finding that No ESI Spoliation Occurred in Trade Secrets Case … Read more » Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Default Judgment Entered as Sanction for Intentional Spoliation of ESI … Read more » Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Summary Judgment Granted Despite Destruction of Video Evidence … Read more » ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
ESI Spoliation Found to Support Claim of Misappropriation of Trade Secrets … Read more » Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Cannot Find ESI Spoliation Where Documents May or May Not Have Existed … Read more » Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Adverse Inference Instruction Ordered for ESI Spoliation Outside the Scope of FRCP 37(e) … Read more » Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff’s Claims Alleging Conspiracy To Spoliate ESI Insufficient To Give Rise To Cause Of Action For Violation of Constitutional Rights … Read more » No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
No Spoliation Where Defendants Altered Document Retention Policy on Website … Read more » Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Re Deleted Audio Recording, Court Unpersuaded FRCP 37(e) Applied-Intentional Spoliation Found and Sanctions Ordered Instead … Read more » New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
New York Plaintiff Sanctioned for Spoliation of Computer, Text Messages, Audio Recordings … Read more » Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Boeing Sanctioned for ESI Spoliation in Aircraft Industries Case … Read more » Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Defendant’s ESI Default Spoliation Sanction Reduced … Read more » Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Spoliation Not Addressed In Meaningful Way So Tenth Circuit Court Affirms Summary Judgment … Read more » Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Defendant Seeks FRCP 37(e) Sanctions for Lost Call Center Recordings … Read more » Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Declines to Find Spoliation for Inadvertent Destruction of Computer Prior to Lawsuit … Read more » Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Spoliation of Electronic Evidence Not Found in Maryland Will Contest … Read more » Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Sinks FRCP 37 Spoliation Motion Where Hard Drive Containing Purported Photos Goes Down With Barge … Read more » Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Court Declines to Order Spoliation Sanctions Despite Re-Imaging of Hard Drive … Read more » Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
Plaintiff’s Motion for ESI Spoliation Sanctions Denied Without Prejudice Pending Further Discovery … Read more »
