A short excerpt from Thursday's 76-page decision by Judge Jessica Clarke (S.D.N.Y.) in Doe v. Black (see also this ...

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 ...

During the course of a trade secrets litigation, neglecting to preserve electronically stored information (“ESI”) may result in a finding of spoliation. In a recent Order issued by Judge Edward Davila ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of Judge Shira Scheindlin's 2010 landmark decision in Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of America Securities, defining the extent of the duty to ...

Metzler, Timm, Treleven, Pahl, Beck S.C. This Opinion piece appears in the Feb. 22 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. For any trucking company that becomes the target of ...

In these days following the high-profile collapse of Enron, litigation involving the company is a hot topic. Allegations of document shredding against Enron and its accountants have made the ...

Often taken for granted as admissible evidence (which may not be the case), helpful guidance can be found in the motion court decision in I.M. Operating v. Younan on the admissibility of voicemail ...

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 ...