A grocery store that deleted surveillance footage of all but about 37 minutes before and 20 minutes after a slip-and-fall spoliated evidence because by that time it had already received a letter from plaintiffs counsel requesting footage of a significantly longer time span, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled.

In Marshall v. Brown’s IA, a three-judge appeals panel ordered a new trial for plaintiff Harriet Marshall because the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge who oversaw her first trial failed to give the jury an adverse inference instruction based on defendant ShopRite’s  spoliation of evidence.