Allstate Insurance Company and Granite Mutual Insurance Company v. Hamilton Beach/proctor Silex, Inc., Docket No. 04-6282-Cv

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• holding that the district court abused its discretion by imposing a spoliation sanction where the noncustodial party was “provided a full opportunity to inspect the items”
• holding that, when the custodial party offered an opportunity to inspect evidence and the opportunity was rejected, the district court abused its discretion when it imposed sanctions
• holding that a district court ábused its discretion in imposing sanctions for spoliation, where the moving party did not request the preservation of the destroyed evidence and disclaimed any interest in it, despite a full opportunity to inspect the evidence
• holding that the duty to preserve evidence does not continue indefinitely
• reversing decision to grant adverse inference instruction, in part, because defendant had not requested preservation of the evidence at issue
• expert testimony using process of elimination to identify ignition source based upon burn pattern constitutes cireum-stantial evidence of probable cause of fire

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