Maryland Entertainment Legal Questions

Hello Chad. I'm sorry to hear of the problems that you're having. You are in Maryland according to the geographical location that was selected here. If you do plan to file suit it may be and I emphasize maybe that you may need to retain counsel in the state that the defendant resides because if you file suit, that the Jurisdiction of the court will lie where the defendant resides or where the contract was to be performed. So in what state does the defendant live, and what state was the contract to be performed?... Read Answer

Unfortunately you cannot get back the video that was destroyed. To have any recourse, you would have to enforce your agreement that they provide you a copy. If you have a written agreement, look to see what their obligations were on providing you a copy. If you believe you had an oral agreement, you would have to prove the terms of that agreement. Regardless once the copy is gone there is nothing they can do to replace it. This could be an issue in proving your "damages" because a court will only order payment of money "damages" if the amount of damage can be proven. You could ask for punitive damages, but those are extremely rare in breach of contract cases.... Read Answer