Legal Opinion
Brookshire Brothers, Ltd. v. Jerry Aldridge
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 3, 2014No. 10-0846PublishedCited by 143 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lehrmann
in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, Justice WILLETT, and Justice BOYD joined.
A fundamental tenet of our legal system is that each and every trial is decided on the merits of the lawsuit being tried. After all, reaching the correct verdict is the goal of a fair and impartial judiciary. However, when the spoliation of evidence is at issue, this goal is hampered in conflicting ways. First, as is the case when evidence is lost or destroyed for any reason, spoliation can deprive the factfinder of relevant evidence, which can in turn negatively impact the fairness of the…
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