The opinion's last paragraph also offers us this tantalizing tidbit: Finally, under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court providently exercised its broad discretion in granting the claimants’ request to impose sanctions for the spoliation of evidence to the extent of according an adverse inference with respect to the destruction of the draft appraisal reports prepared by the Village’s appraiser (see generally Madkins v State of New York, 82… [read post]