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18 Oct 2013, 6:17 am
Accordingly, even assuming [Defendant] was under a duty to preserve when Hashad’s custodial documents were destroyed, a spoliation inference would not be appropriate. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 3:57 pm
Pausing to “define some key terms,” the court established that “for spoliation, the spoliator must have intended to ‘act with purpose’” and again cited the Delaware Supreme Court which reasoned that “an adverse inference is consistent with human nature and common sense: if a party intentionally destroys evidence, it is reasonable to infer that the evidence was not favorable… [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 2:25 pm
" Plaintiff sought an adverse inference. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 2:00 pm
In Maryland, if there has been spoliation in a Maryland truck accident case, the court may give a spoliation jury instruction that permits an adverse inference even if it did not involve an act of bad faith. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 12:16 am
However, an adverse inference instruction is appropriate even in the absence of bad faith. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 7:56 am
An adverse inference charge balances the equities, in that the factfinder is permitted to presume that the evidence the spoliator destroyed or concealed would have been unfavorable to him or her. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 7:31 am
Plaintiff sought an adverse inference instruction and monetary sanctions consisting of compensation for the time and expense involved in the forensic examination of computer files, the time and costs associated with developing deposition testimony and document discovery, and attorney's fees associated with litigating the motion. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 2:16 pm
” Accordingly, the Court granted the defendants’ request for an “adverse inference” jury instruction due to the plaintiff’s failure to preserve his Facebook account. [read post]
27 May 2011, 3:07 am
The judge ruled that Ahroner should receive the benefit of “an adverse inference instruction at trial with respect to e-mails on [the Bank’s] hard drive. [read post]
10 Dec 2022, 8:34 am
The trial court granted the defendant’s motion and denied the plaintiff’s motion while granting her leave to renew the motion to the extent it sought an adverse inference instruction at trial. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 12:49 pm
Apr. 16, 2007) In this misappropriation of trade secrets case, plaintiff moved for sanctions for spoliation of evidence based upon the admitted destruction of a hard drive containing a copy of... [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 11:58 am
Accordingly, the court ordered an adverse inference as to the spoliation of Marty’s evidence only, following its determination that such evidence was likely highly relevant to the litigation. [read post]
1 May 2014, 8:10 am
Implications For Employers As this case demonstrates, decisions made regarding the preservation of evidence issues at the beginning of, and even leading up to, litigation can have very serious implications, whether in the form of sanctions, an adverse inference at trial or even outright dismissal. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 1:07 pm
These sanctions are varied and may range from an award of attorney’s fees to an adverse inference instruction, which is an instruction to the jury that they must infer that the litigant’s failure to preserve the evidence means that the evidence was unfavorable to the litigant. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 5:00 am
The decedent was then cremated shortly thereafter.During the course of this litigation, certain Defendants filed the Motion for Spoliation Sanctions seeking to have the case dismissed with prejudice or, in the alternative, to preclude any autopsy evidence and to have an adverse inference instruction issued based upon the son’s alleged deliberate spoliation of evidence by way of cremating his mother’s body which thereby deprived the facility of its own… [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 11:31 am
’” The court ruled that the plaintiffs would be permitted to present evidence to the jury concerning the intentional destruction of the encryption keys, but declined to impose an adverse jury inference based on the spoliation. [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 11:31 am
’” The court ruled that the plaintiffs would be permitted to present evidence to the jury concerning the intentional destruction of the encryption keys, but declined to impose an adverse jury inference based on the spoliation. [read post]
3 Jun 2021, 11:31 am
’” The court ruled that the plaintiffs would be permitted to present evidence to the jury concerning the intentional destruction of the encryption keys, but declined to impose an adverse jury inference based on the spoliation. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 11:35 am
” Instead, the court’s sanction combined denial of the bank’s summary judgment motion, which relied in part upon the spoliated data, with imposition of a permissive adverse inference. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 1:42 pm
An adverse inference can be applied against a defendant for spoliation when there is merely “negligent destruction of relevant evidence. [read post]
