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· 3/2/1981

In Re Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation, M.D.L. No. 310. Appeal of Phillip L. Fleischacker, Deponent

Citations

  • 644 F.2d 70
  • 31 Fed. R. Serv. 2d 165
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 19730

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  • finding that a prosecutor cannot use answers by a witness to ques- tions posed by a civil litigant if those questions were derived from a protected statement
  • compelling answers to questions “concerning specific subjects that actually were touched upon by questions appearing in the transcript of the immunized testimony”
  • compelling answers to questions \concerning specific subjects that actually were touched upon by questions appearing in the transcript of the immunized testimony\
  • collecting cases for the proposition that a “witness is entitled to claim the Fifth 5 Amendment privilege if it might reveal perjury in a prior proceeding” (emphasis added)
  • where transcript of witnesses’s immunized testimony constituted the source of questions posed to the same witness in a civil proceeding, responsive answers to such questions are unavailable for subsequent prosecutorial use

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Judges: Mulligan, Meskill, Holden

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