Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano summarize the key principles courts generally apply in deciding whether to permit Fifth Amendment adverse inferences in civil suits against corporate defendants.
The Court of Appeals last week determined that a trial court is not required to issue an adverse inference charge whenever the police could have, but failed to, electronically record an interrogation.
In a patent infringement suit by Apple, Inc. against Samsung Electronics Co, LTD, Apple filed a motion for an adverse inference jury instruction based on Samsung's alleged spoliation—the failure to ...
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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued its long-awaited ruling concerning the state of US patent law with respect to determinations of wilful infringement. In an en banc decision in ...
The plaintiff tripped and fell on a floor mat near the beverage area in the defendant’s store. After the incident, a store employee reviewed surveillance footage from the day of the incident, but was ...
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If Reginald Clemons never gets another day in court to defend himself against the charges that he raped Robin Kerry and Julie Kerry on April 4, 1991 and was an accomplice to their murders, then he ...
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