Silkworth v. City of Boca Raton
Silkworth v. City of Boca Raton
| Case Date: | 11/07/2016 |
| Citation: | Silkworth v. City of Boca Raton, Case No. 2013CA013276, 2016 Fla. Cir. LEXIS 4645 (Fla. 15th Cir. Ct. Nov. 7, 2016) |
| Court Type: | Florida State Court |
| Court: | Circuit Court |
| Judge: | Circuit Judge: Meenu Sasser |
| Rule(s): | Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.380 |
| Issues: | Plaintiff moved for adverse inference sanctions against Defendant. The issue was whether an adverse inference sanction was appropriate when Defendant failed to preserve and produce certain surveillance footage. |
| Resolution: | The Court granted Plaintiff’s motion for sanctions in the form of adverse inferences. Defendant had a duty to preserve the surveillance footage since litigation was reasonably foreseeable, and the footage at issue was crucial to Plaintiff’s prima facie case. |
| E-Discovery Issues: | Adverse Inference, Motion for Sanctions |
| E-discovery Tags: | Data Retention, Preservation and Collection, Sanctions, Spoliation |
| E-discovery subjects: | Surveillance Footage |