“Quite simply, the court finds defendants’ protestations that they acted in ‘good faith’ when installing the awnings and soaker hoses to be incredible. Defendants breached their duty to preserve the status quo on death row with the goal of thwarting accurate measurement of temperatures, humidity and heat index. This intentional, and by plaintiffs’ unrebutted account successful, destruction of unfavorable evidence is quite sufficient to satisfy the ‘bad faith’ standard.”
—Federal Middle District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson, in ruling for sanctions against a Baton Rouge law firm with $3 million in state contracts, for its actions in a lawsuit against the state by three death row inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Louisiana Voice 
At least, as you point out in the longer piece, Burl Cain freely admitted that he screwed up. That kind of candor and honesty has become almost non-existent and I think he deserves credit for it.
No matter what else happens, the law firm in this case is doing quite well, so they only need to worry if the court actually imposes penalties on them individually and they could, perhaps, make those of a monetary nature up in future fees anyhow.
So far, the only losers in this case are the inmates. They will continue to get no relief from the heat until the case is settled. If you believe they should suffer as much as possible, I guess that’s the positive take away of this case so far – But, wait a minute, they weren’t going to get relief under the status quo either and this case is costing the state big bucks. Never mind. Once again, nobody wins (except the state’s attorneys).