Originally Posted by
More Bacon
Dude, that may work with the chicks, but it's not impressing me. I won't finish my law degree for a few months, so let's shelf the legal gobbledygook. I'm ostensibly paying dues money to ALPA lawyers who are "looking out for us," and who know about that type of stuff.
Clearly, the guys we are paying are not looking out for you and me. They are looking out for the ALPA bureaucracy. Delta pilots' and the ALPA bureaucracy's interests overlap zero in this case. So we're paying lawyers to bend the Delta pilot group over...for a HUGE amount of money.
We're getting completely hosed. Time for a new bargaining agent!
Really? The judge
denied the motion that "Manager" posted for sanctions. That's it. The sanctions didn't happen.
The court also wrote that Plaintiffs made vague statements, such as: “ALPA’s spoliation was so widespread and covered such a long period of time it can only be concluded that substantial evidence was destroyed which would have been favorable to Plaintiffs.” Such a catch-all statement, along with vague speculation as to whether evidence has been destroyed or even whether evidence was relevant does not rise to the specificity level required by the Third Circuit to impose sanctions or even make a finding of spoliation. While Defendants should have moved more quickly to place litigation holds on the routine destruction of certain documents and electronic data, the Court saw no evidence of bad faith. The court, therefore, denied the motion for sanctions at this time.