North River Insurance Company, Inc. v. Peter Stefanou

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• declining to consider plaintiff’s argument that the “case should be remanded to the district court with instructions to allow him to amend” his complaint because he raised this argument “for the first time on appeal”
• witness cannot make blanket assertion of Fifth Amendment right because it is insufficient to allow court to make reasonable assessment of risk of incrimination
• the mere “blanket refusal to answer questions does not suffice to raise constitutional concerns.”
• “Nor does a proper invocation of the privilege mean that a defendant is excused from the requirement to file a responsive pleading; he is obliged to answer those allegations that he can and make a specific claim of privilege as to the rest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).