Oklahoma High Court: Honda Had No Duty To Preserve 12-Year Old Data

(March 6, 2018, 11:20 AM EST) -- OKLAHOMA CITY — Reversing a trial court’s sanctions order, the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Feb. 13 held that American Honda Motor Co. Inc. did not have a duty to preserve certain electronic design data because there was no reason to anticipate a product liability suit that would be filed 12 years after the data’s routine destruction (American Honda Motor Company Inc. v. Harold G. Hayward Jr., et al., No. 116,394, Okla. Sup., 2018 OK 14)....

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