Law School Shredding of Bias Probe Notes to be Shared With Jury

A federal jury will be told that the University of Idaho School of Law failed to preserve interview notes from an internal investigation of alleged race and sex discrimination against faculty and staff members and that it may presume the notes support a professor’s bias claims.

The jury will receive that instruction during the trial of Shaakirrah Sanders’ 2019 lawsuit, the US District Court for the District of Idaho said, granting her motion for sanctions. Sanders alleges that she was subjected to a pattern of disparate job terms and conditions because she is Black and a woman. The trial ...