Chaffin, Inc. v. Wallain

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• holding adverse inference permissible in the face of defendants' repeated invocation of Fifth Amendment privilege in discovery responses
• noting intent may be proved by circumstances as well as direct proof
• “[T]he finder of fact in a civil case should be permitted to draw an adverse inference against a party who claims the Fifth Amendment privilege . . . .”

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