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• Electronic Information - A Trap for the Unwary in Business Litigation ( April 2006 )
  Martin D. Beirne, Donald W. Towe and David A. Pluchinsky of Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P.

  In 2005, a court-ordered statement of facts, attributable in part to the spoliation of electronic information, led to a $1.45 billon jury award against Morgan Stanley & Co. This case is one of many confirming that courts are not willing to relax discovery requirements or overlook discovery abuse because data is maintained electronically. Today, the majority of commercial data and corporate communications are either stored or transmitted electronically consequently requests for electronic information ("e-discovery") are common in business litigation.

• PHKS: Technology Alert: Volume 4 Issue 1: Wayward Trends in Internet Unfair Competition Litigation ( April 2000 )
  Robert L. Hollingshead of Day Pitney LLP

  This article discusses the independent tort of intentional spoliation of evidence and how a company can avoid this type of claim by preserving documents and or evidence.

• Emergency Repairs: Are you Destroying the Evidence ( June 1999 )
  Thomas E. Miller of Thomas E. Miller Law Office

  Very often property managers and board members are faced with having to make common area emergency repairs during .

• Spoliation of Evidence in Pennsylvania Courts ( June 1999 )
  Dugan, Brinkmann, Maginnis & Pace

  Recent State Court decisions adopt federal court balancing test. The loss or destruction of evidence, termed .

• Superior Court Addresses Spoliation And Admissibility of Evidence in Products Liability Actions ( December 1998 )
  Jerrold P. Anders of White and Williams LLP

  Three recent decisions by the Pennsylvania Superior Court dealing with spoliation of evidence and the admissibility.