Magistrate Judge: Party Hasn’t Shown Spoliation Concerning WhatsApp Settings

( October 7, 2026, 8:38 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Declining to impose spoliation sanctions on a defendant accused of breaching its contract in a dispute over referrals, a California federal magistrate judge said in part that the plaintiff “has not shown that anything was lost due to” the defendant’s “failure to change its WhatsApp settings when this action was filed.”...