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· 10/12/1982

Jalifi v. Industrial Commission

Citations

  • 459 U.S. 899
  • 103 S. Ct. 200

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding party “highly culpable” for its “conscious and reckless disregard” of discovery obligations
  • finding party “highly culpable” for its “conscious and reckless disregard for [its] discovery obligations”
  • imposing adverse inference charge sanction for party’s reckless destruction of evidence
  • adverse inference warranted where unique evidence destroyed, not where evidence was cumulative
  • adverse inference instruction given where the party recklessly destroyed evidence.

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Judges: Jurisdiction, Set, Would

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