Buckley v. Mukasey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exclusion of evidence of prior litigation “affected [the plaintiff’s] substantial rights by rendering her unable to cogently demonstrate * * * retaliatory animus.”
• explaining that the spoliation of evidence, “though not conducted in bad faith, could yet be intentional, willful, or deliberate” and therefore support an adverse inference instruction (internal quotation marks omitted)
• an adverse inference requires a showing that the party “knew the evidence was relevant to some issue at trial and that his willful conduct resulted in its loss or destruction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).