Spoliation cites

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Fri Aug 3 22:19:57 PDT 2001


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:02:22PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>       I think you're getting a little off-track here --- the original
> discussion was about whether the court could make the journalist turn
> over *all copies* of a document. She wasn't trying to destroy them to
> hide anything,
>       As others have stated, if you don't keep logs, or throw away all
> your reciepts, there's not jack they can do about it --- the interesting
> question is whether or not they can somehow expect you to turn over
> *all* copies of a document you've published on freenet or mojo. And
> whether they are encrypted or not is irrelevant.
>       Although really, the most serious question everyone should be
> asking is why the court wants "all" copies.

yeah. After going through this myself, such a situation strikes
me as highly unusual.

-Declan





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