Aloi v. Union Pacific Railroad Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that when a defendant had notice of an impending lawsuit but failed to preserve documents relevant to the litigation, this was sufficient for a finding of willfulness justifying an adverse inference
• “A trial court has broad discretion to permit the jury to draw an adverse inference from the loss or destruction of evidence.”
• when a defendant had notice of an impending lawsuit but failed to preserve documents relevant to the litigation, this was sufficient for a finding of willfulness justifying an adverse inference
• a permissive instruction, “you may infer . . . that the evidence contained in such documents was unfavorable,” was 32 proper when a district court found the defendant acted willfully
• “[A] trial court has wide discretion to provid e an adverse inference instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).