A federal judge in Pennsylvania hit a hazardous spills company with sanctions Monday for failing to produce key documents in a lawsuit over a fire at a chemical supplier’s facility.

U.S. District Judge John Gallagher of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in his opinion that defendant First Call Environmental LLC “failed to preserve and produce these relevant documents in reasonably foreseeable litigation against plaintiffs,” earning the company an adverse inference of spoliation.

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