Coquina Investments v. TD Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that in civil cases “the Fifth Amendment does not forbid adverse inferences against parties . . . when they refuse to testify in response to probative evidence offered against them”
• it is improper to allow questioning on issues not supported by independent admissible evidence when a witness is invoking his or her Fifth Amendment privilege
• it is improper to allow questioning on issues not supported by independent admissible evidence when a witness is invoking his or her Fifth Amendment privilege
• ʺ[W]hen the instructions, taken together, properly express the law applicable to the case, there is no error even though an isolated clause may be inaccurate, ambiguous, incomplete or otherwise subject to criticism.ʺ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining background of underlying action for context
• agreeing with the district court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).