Frank Stevenson v. Union Pacific Railroad Company

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a district court’s inherent power includes the ability to order an appropriate sanction for spoliation of evidence
• recognizing that a district court’s inherent power includes the ability to order an appropriate sanction for spoliation of evidence
• recognizing that a district court’s inherent power includes the ability to order an appropriate sanction for spoliation of evidence
• recognizing that a district court’s inherent power includes the ability to order an appropriate sanction for spoliation of evidence
• holding that without relevant evidence related to missing information, \the jury is deprived of sufficient information on which to base a rational decision of whether to apply the adverse inference\
• holding that in order for an adverse inference instruction to be appropriate, “there must be a finding of intentional destruction indicating a desire to suppress the truth”

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