Contracts
Friday, January 27, 2012
Magistrate Says Failure To
Implement Litigation Hold
Was Grossly Negligent
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A federal magistrate judge in New York on March 31 ordered a plaintiff company in a breach of contract suit to pay costs incurred for additional depositions necessitated by its delayed production of documents and its failure to implement a litigation hold, which the magistrate judge found was the result of gross negligence (Crown Castle USA Inc., et al. v. Fred A. Nudd Corp., et al., N0. 05-CV-6163T, W.D. N.Y.; 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32982). From Mealey's Litigation Report: Discovery
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