Holmes v. Amerex Rent-A-Car

How courts have described this case

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• holding that such a tort exists in the District of Columbia
• recognizing the tort of negligent or reckless spoliation of evidence by a third party
• recognizing the tort of negligent or reckless spoliation of evidence by a third party
• recognizing the tort of intentional spoliation and holding that monetary damages are available
• recognizing the right to recover in tort for spoliation of evidence
• explaining that proximate cause requires a showing “that the defendant’s actions proximately caused some level of impairment in the plaintiff’s ability to prove an existing underlying civil claim” and that “plaintiff’s underlying claim was, at some threshold level, meritorious”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).