Trigger Event

Defendants deleted evidence before and after legal hold, then misrepresented its availability

In this employment case, the magistrate imposed monetary sanctions and recommended an adverse inference jury instruction for the defendants’ spoliation of electronically stored information (ESI).…

Court declines sanctions where defendant deleted emails a decade before lawsuit

‘So sue me’ not enough to trigger duty to preserve evidence

What Is a Trigger Event?

What Is A Legal Hold?

If You Don’t Issue a Legal Hold, Now the Court May Do It for You

Synventive Molding Solutions v. Husky Injection Molding Systems, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105306 (D. Vt. Mar. 13, 2009) A recent case out of the U.S.…