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Courtesy of the Electronic Discovery Law Blog, is the report of a recent federal court decision that imposed the penalty of an adverse inference instruction against a plaintiff in an employment discrimination case who disposed of her computer that "crashed" , after the case started, even though it had relevant information, and without trying to recover the data.