Fort Dodge Laboratories, Inc. v. Iowa Cooperative Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that back-up tapes relevant to the litigation should have been segregated and placed in storage
• noting that “active supervision of counsel” is of particular importance when electronically-stored information is involved
• explaining that implementation of a litigation hold is “only the beginning” and “[c]ounsel must oversee compliance with the litigation hold[]”
• finding that the relevance of deleted e-mails could be inferred from other e-mails that had been recovered and eventually produced
• stating that a discarded document is “relevant” to the victimized party’s “claim or defense” where “a reasonable trier of fact could find that [the missing document] would support that claim or defense”
• explaining that a corporate party’s counsel must be “creative” to satisfy the party’s preservation obligations “given the size of a company or the scope of a lawsuit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).