Kounelis v. Sherrer

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there is no general rule requiring expert testimony to establish emotional distress
• noting unfairness of “putting the word of a convicted felon against the collective testimony of the prison authorities” in imposing adverse inference instruction based on destruction of video
• permitting an adverse inference instruction against a defendant after surveillance video evidence of an alleged assault by prison guards was lost because it was never downloaded and recorded onto a videotape
• “Non-dispositive matters include evidentiary rulings, pretrial discovery matters, and the imposition of sanctions for discovery abuses[.]”
• “Non-dispositive 1 matters include . . . pretrial discovery matters . . . .”
• “Non-dispositive 17 matters include . . . pretrial discovery matters . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).