Legal Opinion
Nucor Corp. v. Bell
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided February 1, 2008No. C/A No. 2:06-CV-02972-DCNPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER and OPINION
DAVID C. NORTON, Chief Judge.
This matter is before the court on plaintiffs motion for sanctions based on defendants’ alleged spoliation of electronic evidence. Specifically, plaintiff contends defendants intentionally destroyed or altered evidence found in a USB thumb-drive device (often referred to as the “SanDisk”), on a SeverCorr laptop computer used by John Bell, and on a CD that Bell created in March 2006. Moreover, plaintiff argues defendants’ expert witness destroyed evidence by improperly handling the SeverCorr laptop hard drive. In light of those allegations,…
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