NO RECORD RETENTION POLICY, NO SAFE HARBOR The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure only provide "safe harbor" to those companies that have a valid document-management system in place nd that is consistently followed, updated, and suspended under the appropriate circumstances. Rule 37(f) merely reflects a collective judgment by the Judicial Conference of the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court, and Congress that protection from sanctions should predominate over other considerations in the limited area of losses from routine operations of information systems.

Fines & penalties
Sanctions