As bookends to a defense verdict in what started as an $82 million breach of contract claim against Hotwire Communications, a federal judge first granted spoliation sanctions and later doled out $110,000 to Hotwire under the newly amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The series of events in DVComm v. Hotwire Communications happened over the course of several rulings and a jury verdict last month, ultimately finding Hotwire did not breach a nondisclosure agreement with telecommunications consultant DVComm when Hotwire entered the Atlanta market years after DVComm said it gave Hotwire the blueprint to do so.

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