Chicago Hardware & Fixture Co. v. Letterman

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• most severe sanctions should be reserved for cases where a party has maliciously destroyed relevant evidence
• most severe sanctions should be reserved for cases where a party has maliciously destroyed relevant evidence
• punitive damages may be awarded in tort actions if it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s actions showed, among other things, a deliberate course of conduct which knowingly endangered product users
• loss of the single turnbuckle that injured plaintiffs did not impair their ability to show unfitness or defendant’s -ability to present a defense concerning, the mass-produced object when other examples with the same features existed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).