A motion for an adverse inference was denied in Pratt v. Robbins, et al., 2024 WL 234730, Case No. 5:20-cv-170-GCM (W.D. N.C. Jan. 22, 2024) where Defendants failed to preserve or produce a video that ...

In today’s Digital Era, where employee mobility is commonplace, businesses are more exposed than ever to trade secret theft by employees. As businesses move toward the complete digitization of ...

A grocery store that deleted surveillance footage of all but about 37 minutes before and 20 minutes after a slip-and-fall spoliated evidence because by that time it had already received a letter from ...

In Centrifugal Force, Inc. v. Softnet Communications, Inc. (S.D.N.Y May 11, 2011), U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein considered a highly fact-intensive case focused on alleged spoliation of ...

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Going in for My Spoliation Surgery Tomorrow A trial court had held that nonemergency spinal surgery was “spoliation of evidence” in a case stemming from a spinal injury, because “the preservation of [ ...

Venable offices in Washington, D.C. October 24, 2014. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.[/caption] This story was originally published in the Connecticut Law Tribune. In new court ...

But what happens when an autopsy is performed, in anticipation of litigation, and the body is subsequently cremated? Regardless of whether the autopsy is performed by a county coroner or an ...

MANY PRODUCT liability attorneys believe that destruction, hiding or alteration of data may take place during discovery but it is hard to "prove" such misconduct in a particular case unless someone on ...

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NEW YORK – A New York appeals court affirmed that a motorist's decision to undergo surgery after sustaining serious injuries to his spine in a car accident cannot be the basis of sanctions for ...