Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Parties 1 are free to invoke the Fifth Amendment in civil cases, but the court is equally free to 2 draw adverse inferences from their failure of proof.”
• “Parties are free to invoke the Fifth Amendment in civil cases, but [in civil proceedings] the court is equally free 28 to draw adverse inferences from their failure of proof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).