Citing General Counsel’s Willful Failure to Preserve and Other Violations, Court Orders Partial Default Judgment, an Adverse Inference Instruction & Monetary Sanctions
Day v. LSI Corp., No. CIV 11-186-TUC-CKJ, 2012 WL 6674434 (D. Ariz. Dec. 20, 2012)
In this case arising from the alleged breach of an employment contract, discrimination, and related claims, the court found that Defendant was “at fault” for failing to preserve relevant evidence and imposed serious sanctions accordingly. Notably, the court’s analysis focused significantly on the actions of Defendant’s General Counsel, who the court found had “at least acted willfully” in his failure to preserve particular evidence, and also relied, in part, on Defendant’s failure to follow its own document retention policies.