http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ny-supreme-court/1525359.html
May 25, 2010OUTCOME: ORDERED that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the facts, and that branch of the defendant's motion which was to dismiss the plaintiff's causes of action alleging injuries to her left ear is granted.
It is clear from this record that the plaintiff willfully and contumaciously defied discovery orders of the Supreme Court by deleting from her computer's hard drive materials that she had been directed ... to produce.
