Judge punishes Zillow exec for evidence destruction

A Washington state judge has ruled that Zillow executive Curt Beardsley — one of the company’s top representatives to the real estate industry — destroyed evidence willfully and in bad faith in a trade secrets lawsuit between Zillow and realtor.com operator and News Corp. subsidiary Move Inc. Consequently, Judge Sean O’Donnell of King County Superior Court will allow the suit’s plaintiffs — Move and the National Association of Realtors — to issue an instruction to the jury in the case’s upcoming June 6 trial …

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