Turner Ex Rel. Estate of Turner v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that district courts have “broad discretion” in deciding whether to sanction a party for spoliation of evidence
• explaining that an “extension of time to file [a] motion lay within the sound discretion of the district court”
• recognizing a “document preservation letter or any other correspondence threatening litigation” can “trigger a duty to preserve evidence”
• holding the party seeking sanctions for spoliation bears the burden of proof
• finding no duty to preserve when plaintiff “did not send the [defendant] a document preservation letter, or any other correspondence threatening litigation”
• reviewing “a district court’s decisions pertaining to the management of its own docket” for abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).