In the recent case of Phillips v. Harmon, however, the Supreme Court of Georgia held that the duty to preserve evidence arises when litigation is reasonably foreseeable to the party in control of that evidence, even if the party is not on notice of a potential claim.
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If they erased the hard drives they should know it is child's play to restore the data unless they followed a time-consuming scrubbing process. When you delete a file, it doesn't disappear, it's just that those bits on the disk are marked for overwrite the next time the disk needs that space.