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(c) Ortega claimed Karras follows a 'standard phone-rotation policy' (Karras's phrase) \u2014 a roughly 60-day rolling clearing of text-message threads, meaning historical messages predating that window would have been deleted as part of routine cycle. Ortega ultimately produced a sworn affidavit (executed 2026-03-18) attesting that after a search of Karras's iPhone 13 and iCloud Messages backup, no responsive text messages exist within the 2025-11-01 through 2026-01-22 discovery window beyond what Park had already produced informally.", "agent": "claude", "fs": { "agent": "claude", "success": true, "steps": 15, "inputTokens": 619710, "outputTokens": 808, "totalTokens": 620518, "cost": 9.3563, "durationMs": 56809, "answer": "## Answers\n\n**(a) Full citation:**\n*Schein v. Powerplay Builders, LLC*, 178 AD3d 1102, 116 NYS3d 296 (2d Dep't 2019).\n\n**(b) Lettered section of the hearing-prep outline:**\nSection **H** (\"ADVERSE-INFERENCE REQUEST\"), which states the one-page request will be \"[t]endered with a Westlaw Small Firm printout of *Schein* and a one-paragraph proposed inference.\"\n\n**(c) What Karras's counsel claimed happened to the text messages:**\nOrtega offered two overlapping claims (Documents 4 and 5 of the discovery correspondence):\n\n1. **No responsive texts ever existed** beyond what Wendell himself produced \u2014 Karras's stated practice was to *call* rather than text once he was on a job, so operational chatter ran through phone calls and in-person walk-throughs.\n2. **Any older messages were routinely deleted** under Karras's self-described **\"standard phone-rotation policy\"** \u2014 a personal-device practice of clearing out text-message threads on a roughly **60-day rolling basis**, applied across all clients and not specific to this matter, such that any historical messages predating the rolling window had been deleted as part of that routine cycle and would not be recoverable from the device.\n\nOrtega ultimately resolved the meet-and-confer by agreeing to serve a sworn affidavit (option (a)) attesting that, after a search of Karras's iPhone 13 (Verizon) and iCloud Messages backup, no responsive texts exist in the 2025-11-01 \u2192 2026-01-22 window.", "judgeReason": "covers all asked facts", "toolCalls": 9, "trajectory": [ { "step": 1, "inputTokens": 28357, "outputTokens": 8, "text": "", "toolCalls": [] }, { "step": 2, "inputTokens": 28357, "outputTokens": 8, "text": "", "toolCalls": [ { "name": "Bash", "input": "{\"command\": \"ls /Users/prasanna/Documents/supermemoryai/supermemoryfs/.scratch/eval/eval/workspace/fs/dp_004/\", \"description\": \"List dp_004 directory\"}", "outputPreview": "agent_memory\nAGENTS.md\nCLAUDE.md", "outputChars": 32 } ] }, { "step": 3, "inputTokens": 28587, "outputTokens": 68, "text": "", "toolCalls": [ { "name": "Bash", "input": "{\"command\": \"ls /Users/prasanna/Documents/supermemoryai/supermemoryfs/.scratch/eval/eval/workspace/fs/dp_004/agent_memory/\", \"description\": \"List agent_memory directory\"}", "outputPreview": "client_intake\ncorrespondence\ndiscovery\nmemory\nnotes\npleadings\nresearch", "outputChars": 70 } ] }, { "step": 4, "inputTokens": 28877, "outputTokens": 51, "text": "", "toolCalls": [ { "name": "Read", "input": "{\"file_path\": \"/Users/prasanna/Documents/supermemoryai/supermemoryfs/.scratch/eval/eval/workspace/fs/dp_004/agent_memory/research/precedent-cases-memo.md\"}", "outputPreview": "1\t# ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT \u2014 PRIVILEGED\n2\t\n3\t**Precedent Cases Memo (Park v. 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