Michelle Hodge v. Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that even when a federal court sits in diversity jurisdiction “the decision to impose . . . a sanction [for spoliation of evidence] is governed by federal law”
• requiring plaintiff to show that defendant knew of a hazard in the time “immediately preceding” the plaintiff’s injury to establish actual knowledge
• affirming decision to grant summary judgment where plaintiff had no evidence to prove the condition existed sufficiently long for a jury to conclude the defendant had notice of it
• “[I]f the cause of the event is left to conjecture, guess, or random judgment, the plaintiff cannot recover.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).