Key Insight: Sanctions denied against defendant because text messages were available from a different source, sanctions denied against plaintiff because documents were not under plaintiff’s control
Nature of Case: Fair Labor Standards Act (failure to pay overtime wages)
Electronic Data Involved: Text messages
Keywords: FLSA, Sefket, CBA,
Key Insight: Negligence or even gross negligence is not necessarily bad faith and thus not spoliation
Nature of Case: Product liability
Electronic Data Involved: Car electronic data
Keywords: truck, bad faith, salvage yard, spoliation, sword, shield
Key Insight: Sanctions not allowed on parties wiping laptops, because they had only been named as search terms after the other party knew that wiping had happened. No sanction for lost emails available from another source. Pure speculation is not enough to find that relevant ESI was destroyed.
Nature of Case: Securities and Commodities litigation
Electronic Data Involved: Computer log info, laptop info
Keywords: spoliation, sanctions, inherent authority
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