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Better Not Toss A “Crashed” Computer

Posted on February 25, 2015
Posted in Best Practices, Case Summary

Judge Kimba M. Wood found for the first time in the Second Circuit in Dorchester Financial Holdings Corp. v Banco BRJ, S.A. that a party must not destroy a “crashed” computer, or it will be subject to a punitive adverse   inference.  One of the issues in the case was the propriety of certain documents which the defendant claimed were forged. …

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