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3 Jan 2017, 9:00 pm by Doug Austin
., Dec. 8, 2016), Illinois District Judge John Robert Blakey granted in part and denied in part the defendant’s motion to compel discovery, for spoliation sanctions, and to extend the discovery deadline, finding that the defendant’s request for dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims and entry of default judgment or issuance of an adverse inference instruction was “not commensurate with the harm implicated here”, opting...Read the whole entry... [read post]
12 Apr 2013, 10:51 am by K&L Gates
Accordingly, the court imposed an adverse inference, but declined to impose monetary sanctions. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 5:56 pm by K&L Gates
Nov. 25, 2013) In this case, the court recommended that an adverse inference instruction be imposed and ordered monetary sanctions where Defendants “did not take adequate steps to avoid spoliation of evidence after it [sic] should have reasonably anticipated this lawsuit and did not issue a litigation hold nor implement nor monitor an adequate document preservation policy. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 1:22 pm by Christopher Simon
When a party destroys relevant evidence with intent or through gross negligence, it may be subject to sanctions, including the application of adverse evidentiary inferences for a jury to apply at trial. [read post]
Thus, the trial court’s decision to provide the jury with an adverse inference instruction was in error. [read post]
18 Aug 2009, 11:00 pm
 Adverse-inference instructions are given only in extreme spoliation cases. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 3:32 pm
  First, relevance "may be inferred if the spoliator is shown to have a sufficiently culpable state of mind. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 10:01 pm by Doug Austin
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29 Mar 2011, 5:00 am by Fernando M. Pinguelo
., requested and was awarded spoliation sanctions, an adverse inference instruction and reimbursement of fees paid to his expert at trial based upon the destruction of electronic evidence. [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 6:14 pm by Daniel E. Cummins
The article reported that the judge ruled that the plaintiff "had a duty to preserve his Facebook account at the time it was deactivated and deleted" and that the defense would be prejudiced by the destruction of this loss of the evidence.The judge declined a request for attorney's fees and ruled that the appropriate sanction under the circumstances would be an adverse inference jury instruction, i.e., an instruction to the jury essentially that the jury may infer… [read post]
7 Apr 2015, 5:00 am by Daniel E. Cummins
  Moreover, as there was therefore an open question in the matter about spoliation relative to the missing maintenance records, and whether an adverse inference in favor of the Plaintiff's case might be proper, summary judgment was found to be precluded on the issue of constructive knowledge. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 4:43 pm by William A. Ruskin
In the absence of a violation of a court order, it is likely that the most relief the aggrieved defendant can obtain is an adverse inference. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 6:05 am by Daniel E. Cummins
   Accordingly, the Superior Court in Parr found that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in given an adverse inference jury instruction as a sanction under the circumstances presented. [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 5:00 am
 Judge Nealon ultimately ruled that, although the presiding trial judge would later determine whether an adverse inference instruction under Pa. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 1:44 pm by PaulKostro
Depending upon the circumstances, spoliation can result in an adverse inference against the party that caused the loss of evidence. [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 11:28 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
§ 285.Of the first issue:ASUS appeals from the district court’s imposition of an adverse inference sanction for spoliation of evidence. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 3:19 pm by Steven Boutwell
Prior to 1997, the only remedy Louisiana courts had granted for spoliation of evidence claims was the application of the adverse presumption. [read post]
15 Nov 2019, 8:16 am by Carabin Shaw
In Texas, a judge may give the jury an instruction to make an adverse inference against the offending party. [read post]