Bloomberg Law
Aug. 10, 2017, 3:20 PM UTC

Discovery Spoliation Saga Continues in Delaware

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

As Plantronics prepares for an October trial on accusations by a competitor that it used “monopolistic” power to control the market for telephone headsets, its lawyers are focused on something totally unrelated to those claims: how to explain to a jury that its employees deleted potentially crucial emails.

It is the latest challenge for Plantronics’ lawyers since a federal judge concluded last July that the company had engaged in bad faith discovery spoliation, and demonstrates the far reaching consequences of discovery.

U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark of Delaware, who is presiding over the case, said at the time he would ...

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