"... the Duty to Preserve is Triggered "when a litigant knew or should have known that litigation was n this case, the court found that the duty to preserve arose after the at-issue information was destroyed in accordance with Defendant’s document retention policies and that an adverse inference was not warranted. Considering the proper standard to employ when assessing when the duty to preserve is triggered, the court concluded that “the duty to preserve is triggered only when a litigant knew or should have known that litigation was imminent (at least in the Seventh Circuit).” http://bit.ly/1i3t1B8 Source: http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2013/10/articles/case-summaries/court-concludes-that-at-least-in-the-seventh-circuit-the-duty-to-preserve-is-triggered-when-a-litigant-knew-or-should-have-known-that-litigation-was-imminent-as-opposed-to-reasonably-foreseeable/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1i3t1B8+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]