Mauricio A. Leon, M.D. v. Idx Systems Corporation, a Vermont Corporation, Mauricio A. Leon, M.D. v. Idx Systems Corporation, a Vermont Corporation

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• holding that the district court must make a finding of “willfulness fault or bad faith” for dismissal or default to be proper
• holding that the district court 13 must make a finding of “willfulness fault or bad faith” for dismissal or 14 default to be proper
• holding that inquiry into prejudice looks to whether the spoiling party’s actions impaired the non-spoiling party’s ability to go to trial or threatened to interfere with the rightful decision of the case
• noting that the plaintiffs “deletion and ‘wiping’ of 2,200 files, acts that were indisputably intentional, amounted to willful spoliation of relevant evidence”
• noting that Ninth Circuit applies same test under Rule 37 as it does under inherent authority
• noting that deposition of the purported spoiler and 15 an evidentiary hearing took place before the district court decided the motion

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