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21 Aug 2013, 9:05 am by K&L Gates
”  In short, “[p]rejudice is presumed for the purpose of determining whether to give an adverse inference instruction when, as here, evidence is willfully destroyed by the spoliating party. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 10:01 pm by Doug Austin
Leung granted in part the plaintiffs’ Motion for Sanctions Due to Spoliation of Evidence, ordering the Rogue Music Alliance (“RMA”) Defendants to pay reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees and costs, that Plaintiffs incurred as a result of the RMA Defendants’ “misconduct”, and also ordered the RMA Defendants to pay into the Court a fine of ...Read the whole entry... [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 6:30 am
Harris, the Court of Chancery for the first time imposed an adverse inference at the motion to dismiss stage and held that it could do so without treating the inference as a formal discovery sanction under Rule 37. [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 6:30 am
Harris, the Court of Chancery for the first time imposed an adverse inference at the motion to dismiss stage and held that it could do so without treating the inference as a formal discovery sanction under Rule 37. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 9:32 am by Susan Brenner
Second, he requested an instruction on spoliation, which would have permitted the jury to draw an adverse inference from Clifton's actions. [read post]
31 Jul 2009, 5:22 pm
  Noting that “[a] proper spoliation sanction should serve both fairness and punitive functions”, the court found that default judgment was not warranted “because a less drastic measure will address the spoliation” and ordered an adverse inference instruction instead. [read post]
21 Jun 2015, 11:00 pm by Doug Austin
., Albany County, May 19, 2015), the New York Supreme Court in Albany County ordered a mandatory adverse inference instruction so that the trier of fact could “draw the strongest possible adverse inference from defendants’ bad faith and intentional destruction, deletion and failure to produce relevant evidence”. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 10:30 am by kgates
Turning to its discussion of relief, the court noted that under both the court’s inherent authority and Rule 37(e), an adverse inference was appropriate. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 10:30 am by kgates
Turning to its discussion of relief, the court noted that under both the court’s inherent authority and Rule 37(e), an adverse inference was appropriate. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 8:02 am by Steve Delchin
United States, 705 F.3d 225, 235 (6th Cir. 2013) (holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to draw an adverse inference against the IRS as a spoliation sanction for failing to preserve a taxpayer’s envelope because the IRS was not shown to have acted “with a sufficiently culpable state of mind”). [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 12:33 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
 The appropriate sanction was an adverse inference instruction that “the social media posts deleted were false advertising of products that compete with Plaintiff. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 8:29 am by K&L Gates
” Summarizing broadly, the plaintiffs’ motion for an adverse inference for Defendant’s spoliation was denied by the District Court. [read post]
2 Apr 2013, 1:16 pm by Peter (Pete) A. Steinmeyer
” 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]
14 Oct 2012, 9:51 am by Stephen Bilkis
In sum, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in striking the Hospital’s answer and, instead, should have imposed the lesser sanction of an adverse inference charge at trial with respect to the subject fetal heart monitoring data. [read post]
14 Oct 2012, 9:51 am by Stephen Bilkis
In sum, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in striking the Hospital’s answer and, instead, should have imposed the lesser sanction of an adverse inference charge at trial with respect to the subject fetal heart monitoring data. [read post]
14 Oct 2012, 9:51 am by Stephen Bilkis
In sum, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in striking the Hospital’s answer and, instead, should have imposed the lesser sanction of an adverse inference charge at trial with respect to the subject fetal heart monitoring data. [read post]
14 Oct 2012, 9:51 am by Stephen Bilkis
In sum, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in striking the Hospital’s answer and, instead, should have imposed the lesser sanction of an adverse inference charge at trial with respect to the subject fetal heart monitoring data. [read post]
2 Jan 2013, 8:52 am by K&L Gates
  Accordingly, the court found that “an adverse instruction at trial w[ould] be appropriate in this case” and also ordered Defendant to pay $10,000 in monetary sanctions “to represent the additional litigation efforts needed by [Plaintiff] to address the spoliation issues. [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 5:00 am
The court noted that this adverse inference served to defeat the Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment. [read post]