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Failure to Disable Auto-Delete and To Follow Up with Recipients of Litigation Hold Results in Adverse Inference

Failure to Disable Auto-Delete and To Follow Up with Recipients of Litigation Hold Results in Adverse Inference

Apple, Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Co. Ltd., No. C 11-1846 LHK (PSG) (N.D. Cal. July 25, 2012)

In this case, the court sanctioned Defendant for the loss of relevant emails resulting from Defendant’s failure to halt the auto-delete feature of its proprietary email system and failure to appropriately follow up with employees subject to the litigation hold to ensure compliance.  As a sanction, the court ordered an adverse inference instruction allowing the jury to presume that the evidence lost was both relevant and favorable to the plaintiff.

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