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Practice Tip: A Non-Party Spoliates Key Evidence

Many product liability litigators have experience in dealing with first-party spoliation or assertions of spoliation, either when their own clients are alleged to have spoliated evidence, or when the opposing party purportedly has done so.

30 minute read February 27, 2011 at 04:30 PM
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Marcella C. Ducca And Christiana Jacxsens
Practice Tip: A Non-Party Spoliates Key Evidence

At the outset of a medical device product liability case, the device in question may not be in possession of either party. For example, the device may be with a medical examiner, or it could be maintained by a non-party medical facility or medical provider.

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