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Recent Examples of spoliation
Last Friday, Damien Marshall and other King & Spalding attorneys on behalf of MSG filed a memorandum of law in opposition to Oakley’s motion for what are known as spoliation sanctions, meaning a punishment for failure to preserve relevant evidence.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 May 2025
Chain of Custody Issues: The longer the delay between an incident and preserving mobile evidence, the more opportunities exist for spoliation claims about data modification or tampering.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
An attorney who allows a client to continue using their phone risks spoliation as normal usage can overwrite or erase crucial data.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.
—Perry Stein, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Epic filed a motion to sanction Google for alleged spoliation of evidence in October.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
The motion for spoliation sanctions is the latest move in the lawsuit by the widow of Kobe Bryant for severe emotional distress after learning that deputies and firefighters shared gruesome images of the crash scene where her husband, daughter Gianna and seven others died in January 2020.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
There is usually an artist somewhere at the bottom of that story of spoliation.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 May 2025
Chain of Custody Issues: The longer the delay between an incident and preserving mobile evidence, the more opportunities exist for spoliation claims about data modification or tampering.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
An attorney who allows a client to continue using their phone risks spoliation as normal usage can overwrite or erase crucial data.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.
—Perry Stein, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Epic filed a motion to sanction Google for alleged spoliation of evidence in October.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
The motion for spoliation sanctions is the latest move in the lawsuit by the widow of Kobe Bryant for severe emotional distress after learning that deputies and firefighters shared gruesome images of the crash scene where her husband, daughter Gianna and seven others died in January 2020.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
There is usually an artist somewhere at the bottom of that story of spoliation.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoliation
Noun
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So any trait that allows a relatively slow, soft-bodied animal to avoid predation has to be taken seriously.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Read More: The extraordinarily large eyes of colossal and giant squid, for instance, mean that these enormous creatures can spot a sperm whale from hundreds of meters away, according to research, enabling the squid to avoid predation.—
Sean Mowbray,
Discover Magazine,
12 June 2025
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Vikings, for example, used the extra daylight to sneak in a longer pillage sesh.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside Online,
19 June 2025
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Otherwise, illicit actors will continue to profit from their pillage.—
Justyna Gudzowska,
Foreign Affairs,
2 June 2025
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California was also a land of plunder, a place where rampant capitalism had merged with unrealistic fantasy.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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At the Jeu de Paume museum, Valland took many risks to safeguard its treasures and record the massive plunder of artwork across France.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
18 June 2025
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Yan Carlos González, a man who staged a 40-day hunger strike in prison protesting charges of sabotage that carried a 20-year sentence, died earlier this week, according to activists and Cubalex, a group providing legal help to people in Cuba.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
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This kind of weight-loss sabotage – or yo-yo dieting – has a surprising biological driver: The gut.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
1 July 2025
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Hopefully the residents of Hawkins will have peace in the end — but not before more destruction.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
16 July 2025
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The emergency biscuits slated for destruction represent only a small fraction of America’s typical annual investment in food aid.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2025
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“Spoliation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoliation. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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