Empressa Nacional \ELCANO\ De La Marine Mercante v. M/V Tropicana

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• “[T]he 20 discovery process relies upon the good faith and professional obligations of counsel to reasonably 21 and diligently search for and produce responsive documents.”
• “[W]hile parties 2 || must impose a reasonable construction on discovery requests and conduct a reasonable search 3 || when responding to the requests, the Federal Rules do not demand perfection.”
• while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has not clearly articulated the degree of culpability necessary to warrant an adverse inference instruction, courts in the circuit have found willfulness or gross negligence to suffice

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