I have a question about this.
The company my family owns is currently in a lawsuit with another company and it's parent company for theft of our information and corporate espionage, or whatever. Basically, the lady who started the sub company under the parent company was working for the parent company while at our company and emailed ALL documents to her home email as well as taking home sensitive paperwork and copying it.
Anyway, we sent the hard drive she used off to somewhere in St. Louis and even though she'd deleted everything they recovered EVERYTHING that had EVER been done on that computer. Enough to severely incriminate.
Anyway, the judge ordered both of those companies not to delete or get rid of any documents that they might have that belonged to us. Well, at the next hearing they revealed that they had been "scrubbing" their hard drives or something, and that a couple had "crashed" and they had to get rid of them. In ten days the judge will decide about the destruction of evidence, but what I'm wondering is this, is it really gone if they still have the hard drive? If so, we could still get it and send it off too.
I'm kind of thinking that no one in the courtroom has a clue about any of this stuff so if they say it's gone, then everyone is probably like oh, they deleted it, despite us sending off our own and getting that evidence.
So, is it still there, or did they do a good enough job?
It may not matter, because it basically sounds like the judge is going to rule in our favor on this and the whole thing will be over.
If not, then we must go on and drag this crap our for another year or so.
