A federal court has sanctioned an employee who deleted electronically stored information, or ESI, from his former employer’s computers after receiving a litigation hold letter when he was fired for starting a competing company with several co-workers. Judge Roderick C. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Roderick C. Young Spoliation U.S. Bankruptcy Court – Eastern District

A request for a spoliation inference in the absence of evidence that electronically stored information, or ESI, was not produced has been rejected by a U.S. District Court judge. During discovery in a trademark case, defense counsel received an email ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Spoliation U.S. District Court - Western District

An insurance company’s bid to recover payments for a fire loss was thrown out of court this month because the company failed to preserve the fire scene. U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski of Roanoke said he dismissed the insurer’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Spoliation U.S. District Court - Western District

In a court battle in which one dentist is suing another for defamation and for firing him, a circuit judge has ordered the defendant dentist to pay $140,554.65 in attorneys’ fees and costs for deleting digital records requested in discovery. ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Michael F. Devine Spoliation Virginia Circuit Courts