Wang Laboratories, Inc. v. CFR Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• custodial party allowed evidence to be destroyed before filing suit but only after its experts had finished investigating the evidence
• “There is no question that State Farm knew the allegedly defective dishwasher would be material in this case. Immediately following the fire, State Farm hired an expert to inspect the Lutz home.”
• “As a matter of sound public policy, an expert should not be permitted intentionally or negligently to destroy such evidence and then substitute his or her own description of it.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).