Reply #79: yes, it works for me, but

[Land Shark]

if you want all the details paganpreacher, you need to come in and pay an attorney fee, or have a debate with a jury of people familar with the law in this area. Without some indicia of seriousness, i am unsure if you really want to understand this.

we have a trial on spoliation (not 'spoilage') in early may.

there are other places in the law where a plaintiff is relieved of making a full case. in the doctrine of res ipsa loquitor, if a defendant has exclusive control over something and accidents don't usually happen except in the presence of negligence, the jury is allowed to infer negligence in the absence of any direct evidence that negligence caused injury. Here, the inference is well established, so the fight it usually over whether or not something is exclusively controlled by the defendant, and other factors that affect the applicability of the doctrine.

you may or may not know that there is a filed case in my state in which these issues may come into play (not the may trial though) It will be pretty easy to show a duty to preserve evidence when the election is being contested here and a letter written asking them to preserve evidence, but in the typical case there are statutes that require the preservation of election-related evidence.