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management system or data retention policy. It’s important to remember, however, that this
amendment does not provide a shield for any party “that intentionally destroys specifi c infor-
mation due to its relationship to litigation or for a party that allows such information to be
destroyed to make it unavailable in discovery by exploiting the routine operation of an informa-
tion system”
[3].
Planning a Shredding Party?
Spoliation’s legal defi nition is the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that
destroys its value as evidence. Loss or destruction of evidence exposes litigants to drastic monetary,
evidentiary, criminal and other sanctions, including in some juri ...