# Understanding Legal Hold Inheritance

The Legal Hold status can be inherited from both user groups and individual laptop owners. When conflicts occur between inherited statuses, Metallic applies a defined precedence order to determine the final Legal Hold status .

# Legal Hold Inheritance Rules

These rules govern how Legal Hold properties are inherited and resolved for laptops with multiple owners or group memberships.

## User-Level Status Overrides User Group Status

If any laptop owner's' Legal Hold status is disabled, this status overrides the inherited user-group status—even when the user-group's Legal Hold status is enabled.

### Example Scenario

- User Group Status: Enabled
- User-Level Status for Owner A: Disabled
- Laptop Owners: Owner A and Owner B

### Result

The laptop Legal Hold status is disabled, because the user-level setting (Disabled takes priority over the inherited user-group value (Enabled).

## Enabled Takes Precedence When Multiple User-Level Statuses Exist

When a laptop inherits user-level Legal Hold statuses from multiple owners, and at least one owner has the status set to Enabled, the final laptop status becomes Enabled.

### Example Scenario

- Owner A’s User-Level Status: Enabled
- Owner B’s User-Level Status: Disabled
- Laptop Owners: Owner A and Owner B

### Result

The laptop property is shown as Enabled, because Enabled overrides Disabled when multiple user-level statuses are inherited.

# Summary

- User-level statuses override inherited user-group statuses.
- When multiple user-level statuses exist across different owners, Enabled always takes precedence over Disabled.

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