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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gravois finds that the trial court properly granted a judge's motion for summary judgment on an individual's claim that the judge conspired with a law clerk to destroy court documents in another suit that the individual was a party to in the same court. The judge testified that he never observed the law clerk mishandle any court documents, and the individual did not present direct evidence that the law clerk destroyed the documents. The complaints against the law clerk were investigated, and there were no eyewitness accounts of the destruction of the documents. Further, the trial court properly granted the law clerk's motion for attorney fees because there was no evidence showing a "willful act in the use of the process not proper in the regular prosecution of the proceeding." Affirmed.