Brigham Young University v. Pfizer, Inc.

ORDER AND MEMORANDUM DECISION GRANTING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR SANCTIONS

BROOKE WELLS, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiffs Brigham Young University and Dr. Daniel Simmons (collectively BYU) have filed a motion for sanctions concerning discovery under Federal Rule 37(b) against Defendant Pfizer, Incorporated et al. BYU asks this Court to enter the following sanctions: (1) striking Pfizer’s Answer; (2) ordering Pfizer to pay BYU’s costs and fees associated in “discovering Pfizer’s discovery abuses;”1 (3) “entering a spoliation instruction that all the documents Pfizer has destroyed…