Ashraf-Hassan v. Embassy of France in the United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge

This ease involves allegations of discrimination by Saima Ashraf-Hassan against her former employer, the French Embassy here in Washington. As a bench trial approaches, each party has asked the Court to draw certain adverse inferences against the other side for the purported failure to preserve evidence. , • Believing that such inferences are not warranted, at least in advance of trial, the Court will deny both Motions.

I. . Legal Standard.

Although the D.C. Circuit has not weighed in on the topic of adverse inferences…