( August 20, 2026, 00:43 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Pacific Seafood filed its opposition to crabber plaintiffs' motion for an adverse inference as a sanction against defendants for evidence spoliation in US price-fixing litigation. "The entire basis for Plaintiffs' motion is Pacific's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories — which, contrary to Plaintiffs' suggestion, Pacific expressly invited," Pacific Seafood said. Even though Pacific has made clear that it continues to work with its custodians to collect electronically stored information, plaintiffs "hurried to file this Motion — almost a year before discovery closes, and with no trial date even set — seeking a broad jury instruction that Pacific intentionally destroyed text messages and mandating that jurors find the messages would have supported Plaintiffs' still-undefined conspiracy case," the defendant said.See attached document....
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