MEMORANDUM in Opposition to NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION for Default Judgment against Defendants/Counterclaimant Jason Huang, Rulong Cheng, Jianping Huang A/K/A James Huang 168
Holding that plaintiffs Sarbanes-Oxley claim and Title VII retaliation claims involved the same nucleus of operative facts, including the time, cause, and circumstances of plaintiffs termination
Holding that treating physicians were retained experts where they formed their opinions after treatment for purposes of litigation, and their opinions were outside the scope of the treatment they rendered
Finding "[t]he severe sanction of default was justified by the defendants' repeated and inexcusable obstruction of every type of discovery attempted by the plaintiffs"
Holding that defendants did not engage in spoliation of evidence when records were intentionally destroyed in accordance with a document retention policy and state regulations before litigation commenced
462 F. Supp. 2d 1060 (N.D. Cal. 2006) Cited 280 times 3 Legal Analyses
Holding that even if the defendant was only "grossly negligent in executing its duties to preserve evidence [] by failing to implement a litigation hold," this satisfied the state of mind requirement for a finding of spoliation