Jo Ann Lyons v. Wilbur R. Johnson, Jo Ann Lyons v. F. J. Delarios, Jo Ann Lyons v. F. J. Delarios

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that plaintiff's civil rights claims were properly dismissed due to her \continued and unyielding refusal\ to submit to discovery
• affirming dismissal of plaintiffs complaint after she persisted in hiding behind the privilege against self-incrimination by refusing to answer any deposition questions or to submit to discovery
• Dismissal for failure to answer any (all) interrogatories on Fifth Amendment grounds, including question involving mere background information, upheld
• “The scales of justice would hardly remain equal in these respects, if a party can assert a claim against another and then be able to block all discovery attempts against him by asserting a Fifth Amendment privilege to any interrogation whatsoever upon his claim.”
• “The 16 scales of justice would hardly remain equal . . . if a party can assert a claim against another and 17 then be able to block all discovery attempts against him by asserting a Fifth Amendment privilege 18 to any interrogation whatsoever upon his claim.”

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