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I don’t think California has document retention laws that cover ordinary email communication within a business. Even the SEC doesn’t require this of publicly-traded corporations in the US, if I’m not mistaken.
So, I don’t believe there is anything stopping Feargus from deleting all the incriminating emails he can find before any discovery process begins. It is perfectly legitimate for an executive to claim they delete every email as they read and respond to it, and people do this in order to insulate themselves.
This would not be true of other types of records, of course, like payroll. But at least some of the malfeasance discussed in this thread is said to have occurred via email.
MRY Am I off-base here?
EDIT: Wormwood Studios has politely & understandably declined to answer legal questions.
So, I don’t believe there is anything stopping Feargus from deleting all the incriminating emails he can find before any discovery process begins. It is perfectly legitimate for an executive to claim they delete every email as they read and respond to it, and people do this in order to insulate themselves.
This would not be true of other types of records, of course, like payroll. But at least some of the malfeasance discussed in this thread is said to have occurred via email.
MRY Am I off-base here?
EDIT: Wormwood Studios has politely & understandably declined to answer legal questions.
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