Sale of Cellphone Leads to No Intent to Deprive for Plaintiff: eDiscovery Case Law

In Hernandez v. DiBiaso, Illinois Magistrate Judge Daniel McLaughlin granted Defendant DiBiaso’s Motion for Spoliation Sanctions in part, finding no intent to deprive, but recommending that Defendant DiBiaso be permitted “[t]o present evidence to the jury” regarding the sale of cellphone and the “[l]ikely relevance of the lost ESI,” but that the jury “[s]hall not be given instructions on any presumption or inference…