Chabad of California has failed to prove its entitlement to collect on its claim of an oral pledge of $18 million from one of its donors, and a Court of Appeal in California has refused to draw an adverse inference from the donor’s widow withholding a spreadsheet that might have provided evidence of the intended gift. Roland Arnall had made three gifts of $180,000 each before his death, which the organization’s Rabbi said were installments on an $18 million oral pledge. No one else testified to the existence of the pledge, and Chabad did not account for the gifts as installment payments until after his death. Arnall’s widow denied any knowledge of the pledge, which Chabad had failed to...