International Business MacHines Corp. v. Brown

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• observing that the complexity of proving business fraud weighs heavily against staying such cases
• “Mere allegations of prosecutorial impropriety, with no supporting evidence, are insufficient to support a stay.”
• \[I]t is well established that parallel civil and criminal proceedings can be brought and pursued against the same defendant 'simultaneously or successively.' \
• individual defendants had already provided deposition testimony in civil action and “therefore [had] no remaining Fifth Amendment privilege to assert.
• rampant crime and severely strained law enforcement resources support allowing corporate victims to share the financial burden of investigating and prosecuting business fraud
• interests of society “irrefutably served” if criminals “brought to justice with a minimum diversion of public resources”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).