AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO. INC. v. THYGESEN

Case Number: 116394.

416 P.3d 1059 (2018)

2018 OK 14

AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR COMPANY INC., a foreign corporation, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Norman THYGESEN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied: May 7, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bart Jay Robey and Eric A. Moen , Chubbuck, Duncan & Robey, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Petitioner.

James G. Wilcoxen , Wilcoxen & Wilcoxen, and Jeff Potts , Jeff Potts Law Office, Muskogee, Oklahoma, for Real Party in Interest, Harold G. Hayward, Jr.


¶ 1 The district court in this case sanctioned Honda Motor Company for "destroying evidence." The evidence — a computer program that Honda uses when designing new models of its vehicles1 — had been deleted pursuant to a routine document-retention...

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