Blankenship v. Celebrezze

How courts have described this case

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

• “[F]or sanctions to be appropriate, it is a necessary, but insufficient, condition that the sought-after evidence actually existed and was destroyed.”
• “In the absence of bad faith or other sufficiently egregious conduct, it cannot be inferred from the conduct of the spoliator that the evidence would even have been harmful to him.”
• in the context of discovery, “relevance” is “‘an extremely broad concept.’” (citing cases)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).