Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Thomas W. Collins

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the “doc- trine only comes into play if, were it not for the doctrine, the government would be forcing a person to incrim- inate himself”
• holding argument not raised in main brief supporting petition for review waived
• holding argument not mentioned in brief waived
• “[T]he statute does not block access, through pretrial discovery or otherwise, to copies of tax returns in the possession of litigants.”
• “No law forbids a regulatory agency to draw the logical inference from a regulated entity’s refusing on Fifth Amendment grounds to play ball with the agency.” (citing Baxter, 425 U.S. at 318)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).