Alexander T. Arthurs v. Chris O. Stern

How courts have described this case

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• agreeing with Baxter in a medical disciplinary proceeding that “the trier of fact [may] treat 3 silence as evidence of guilt”
• noting “power of federal courts, after a balancing of interests in the particular case before them, to stay civil suits because of pending criminal charges,” and affirming that “denial is reviewed simply for abuse of discretion”
• fifth amendment does not bar adverse inference where privilege is claimed by party to a civil cause
• based on a balancing test, the denial of a motion to stay a civil action to allow a party to invoke a privilege against self-incrimination is reviewed “simply for abuse of discretion”
• disciplinary board may draw unfavorable inference from doctor’s refusal to testify at disciplinary hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).