When the Bough Breaks, Spoliation Sanctions Part 1
A multi-part series reviewing decisions related to spoliation of ESI since the December 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
by Matthew Verga, JD, Xact Data Discovery
On December 1, 2015, the most significant amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became effective since the 2006 amendments that made the eDiscovery era official. Among the rules revised was Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37, which governs discovery failures like spoliation and the associated sanctions. Among the changes was made was the replacement of the 2006 version of FRCP 37(f) with the new 2015 version of FRCP 37(e).
