Civil Procedure
Jul. 10, 2026
Judge allows evidence of missing notebook in USF baseball abuse case
A federal judge found the University of San Francisco negligently failed to preserve a former athletic administrator's notebooks, allowing former baseball players suing over alleged sexual misconduct by coaches to present evidence of the missing records at trial while rejecting harsher sanctions against the university.
A group of former University of San Francisco baseball players alleging the school concealed sexual misconduct they faced from a pair of coaches can present evidence of a missing notebook at trial, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ruled Wednesday.
Beeler partially granted the plaintiffs' motion for sanctions against the University of San Francisco for failing to preserve the notebook, which contained former athletic director and department administrator Joan McDermott's...
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