SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco has sanctioned Safeway Inc. and ordered the grocery chain to pay $516,484 for failing to turn over documents related to an old version of its website until just a week before a scheduled October 2015 trial.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar wrote that Safeway’s inability to find a batch of 10 “highly relevant documents” until the eve of trial was “unreasonable” and ordered the company to pay plaintiff’s counsel at Chimicles & Tikellis and Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah for work they did preparing for the trial, which was derailed by the last-minute disclosure.
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