An article by Eric Sinrod led me to an excellent, current case discussing spoliation law and sanctions law. The case demonstrates the serious consequences of spoliation: default judgment and attorneys fees sanctions.

This is the leading case regarding how to admit electronically stored information (ESI) into evidence. To admit ESI into evidence, certain rules of evidence must be followed.

Electronic evidence has been routinely admissible for years, even before the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on December 1, 2006, which expressly included electronically stored information.
For example, consider the following case,