Samuel Carlton Wilson and Flora Idell Wilson, His Wife v. Beloit Corporation John Doe 1-10 International Paper Company

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Samuel and Flora Wilson appeal this diversity case from the district court’s 1 orders granting International Paper Company’s (IPC) motion for summary judgment and denying their motion to depose a former IPC employee. Because the district court’s conclusion that Arkansas law does not permit a civil claim for spoliation of evidence was proper and its refusal to permit discovery was not an abuse of discretion, we affirm.

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On April 24, 1984, Samuel Wilson sustained a leg injury while working for IPC. After recovering workers’ compensation benefits for the injury, the Wilsons…