Legal Opinion
Sekisui American Corp. v. Hart
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 15, 2013No. 12 Civ. 3479PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
A decade ago, I issued a series of opinions regarding the scope of a litigant’s duty to preserve electronic documents and the consequences of a failure to preserve such documents falling within the scope of that duty.1 At its simplest, that duty requires a party anticipating litigation to refrain from deleting electronically stored information (“ESI”) that may be relevant to that litigation. Such obligation should, at this point, be quite clear — especially to the party planning to sue. Here, I consider the appropriate penalty for a party…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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