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Type
Concurrence in part
Filed
July 10, 2019
Case
GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc.
Case status
Decided

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SMITH, Chief Judge, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I agree with my colleagues that the District Court did not abuse its discretion by imposing a permissive adverse inference sanction, and I therefore join Section III.A of the majority opinion. I write separately to add two points to the majority's cogent analysis of why it was permissible for the Court to impose this sanction…

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