Ashton Ex Rel. Estate of Ashton v. Knight Transportation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recounting purposeful, extensive post-accident misconduct over a sustained period of time by defendant to support inference of bad faith
• recounting purposeful, extensive post-accident misconduct over a sustained period of time by defendant to support inference of bad faith
• discussing the need to prove bad faith to make out a spoliation sanction
• \A federal court has the inherent power to sanction a party who has abused the judicial process. The spoliation of evidence is one such abuse.\
• “A duty to preserve arises when a party knows or should know that certain evidence is relevant to pending or future litigation.”
• “Parties tempted to engage in such egregious conduct will be on notice that doing so will forfeit their right to contest liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).