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"We hold that it is within a district court's inherent power to exercise broad discretion in imposing sanctions based on spoliated evidence."

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"We hold that it is within a district court's inherent power to exercise broad discretion in imposing sanctions based on spoliated evidence." So declares the unanimous en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a three-page decision issued today.

At issue in the case was whether state or federal law controls a federal court's imposition of sanctions as relief for spoliated evidence? Today's ruling holds that federal law controls, thereby overruling some earlier Sixth Circuit decisions.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).

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