Court Finds Plaintiffs’ Sanction Request To Be Too Late and Too Little: eDiscovery Case Law
Court Finds Plaintiffs’ Sanction Request To Be Too Late and Too Little: eDiscovery Case Law https://cloudnine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gavel2.png 479 270 CloudNine https://cloudnine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gavel2.pngIn Nguyen v. Costco Wholesale Corp., Florida Magistrate Judge William Matthewman denied the plaintiffs’ motion for sanctions for alleged spoliation of a video that the plaintiffs claimed showed an alleged slip-and-fall by plaintiff Chi Nguyen, finding that the defendant “did not have an affirmative duty to preserve the allegedly spoliated video” for a nearly two year period from the date of the fall to the date of the filing of the lawsuit and that the plaintiffs “fail to cite to a shred of evidence in support” in support of the claim that the video showed the slip and fall.
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