Norman-Nunnery v. Madison Area Technical College

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to impose spoliation sanction where plaintiff did not sufficiently establish that defendants knew litigation was imminent.
• observing a plaintiff need not show “that all of the committee members or even a majority of them held discriminatory beliefs” to make out a retaliation claim
• finding the plaintiff was not entitled to an adverse inference instruction where the relevant documents were lost before the defendant knew or should have known litigation was imminent
• spoliation sanctions not appropriate in the absence of a showing that evidence was “destroyed for the purpose of hiding adverse information”
• “The crucial element in a spoliation claim is not the fact that the documents were destroyed but that they were destroyed for the purpose of hiding adverse information.”
• “The crucial element in a spoliation claim is not the fact that the documents were destroyed but that they were destroyed for the purpose of hiding adverse information.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).