Court Rejects EEOC’s Objections To $22,900 Spoliation Sanction Award

In a case we previously blogged about (here and here), EEOC v. Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, 13-CV-46 (E.D.N.C. Mar. 24, 2014), Magistrate Judge L. Patrick Auld held the EEOC liable for spoliation sanctions based on the “negligence, if not gross negligence” exhibited by the charging party it brought suit on behalf of – one Ms. Charlesetta Jennings (“Ms. Jennings”). On March 24, 2014 Magistrate Judge Auld ordered the EEOC responsible for $22,900 as the reasonable costs incurred by Womble Carlyle that the EEOC must pay. On April 29, 2014, Judge Eagles of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued an order affirming Judge Auld’s sanction award and rejecting the EEOC’s contention that the amount was too high.

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