Lewis v. Mill Ridge Coals, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that defendant's duty to preserve documents was triggered by filing of suit, and noting that, in some cases, duty may be triggered earlier when defendant has reason know that litigation was likely
• permitting plaintiff to take deposition to explore procedures used to preserve documents after finding defendants expunged hard drives of employees after litigation had begun
• “In most cases, the duty to preserve evidence is triggered by the filing of a lawsuit.”
• “Bad faith is the antithesis of good faith and has been defined in the cases to be when a thing is done dishonestly and not merely negligently.”
• “[P]utative litigants have a duty to preserve documents that may be relevant to pending or imminent litigation”
• “In most cases, the duty to 18 preserve evidence is triggered by the filing of a lawsuit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).