Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest held that Foot Locker's destruction of documents was inadvertent, but that plaintiff had met his burden of proving the documents were relevant to the lawsuit over a change in employee benefits.
July 16, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
Failure to put a litigation hold on documents that were inadvertently destroyed has cost Foot Locker a sanction in a case over a change in employee benefits.
Southern District Judge Katherine Forrest (See Profile) granted a plaintiffs’ motion for spoliation sanctions, saying the jury in an upcoming trial will be given an adverse inference instruction against Foot Locker.
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