Court fines Philip Morris USA Inc. $2,750,000 for digital discovery abuse and bars testimony of 11 witnesses
U.S. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., 327 F. Supp.2d 21 (D.D.C. 2004)

J.P. Morgan pays $2.1 million in settlement over e-mail destruction
J.P. Morgan Chase Unit Is Fined Over Record-Keeping, N.Y. TIMES, February 15, 2005, at C4

Court enters judgment for plaintiff plus award of attorneys’ fees for electronic evidence abuse
Metro. Opera Ass’n Inc. v. Local 100, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Int’l Union,
212 F.R.D. 178 (S.D.N.Y. 2003)

Government agency sanctioned for civil contempt for reformatting hard drives and overwriting backup tapes
Landmark Legal Found. v. Environmental Protection Agency,
272 F. Supp.2d 70 (D.D.C. 2003)

CEO sanctioned $10,000 for company’s failure to preserve documents after parties spend $1.5 million litigating sanctions issue
Danis v. USN Communications, Inc., 53 Fed.R.Serv.3d 828 (N.D. Ill. 2000)

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1Shira A. Scheindlin and Kanchana Wangkeo, Electronic Discovery Sanctions in theTwenty-First Century, 11 MICH. TELCOMM. TECH. L. REV. 71 (2004), available at http://www.mttlr.org/voleleven/scheindlin.pdf.