Government,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 6, 2021
Holmes can’t exclude evidence because of destroyed Theranos database
U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila found that Theranos and the company’s former attorneys at WilmerHale turned over a copy of a database known as Laboratory Information System, or LIS, to prosecutors knowing they did not have the encryption key to open it and intentionally did not tell them that they would destroy the original just days later.
A federal judge rejected Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' bid to exclude vast amounts of evidence at her upcoming fraud trial, pinning the loss of a database of blood test results that she claimed was crucial to her defense on the company and attorneys at WilmerHale.
U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila found in a Wednesday ruling that Theranos and the company's former att...
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