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· 12/30/1986

Rad Services, Inc. v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company

Citations

  • 808 F.2d 271
  • 55 U.S.L.W. 2359
  • 22 Fed. R. Serv. 392
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 36326

How courts have described this case

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

  • permitting the jury to draw an adverse inference when the record was “replete with circumstantial evidence of” the witnesses’ “involvement with the alleged plan”
  • “the admission as evidence of a non-party’s invocation of the [f]ifth [a]mendment privilege is not per se reversible error”
  • “admission of evidence of a non-party’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment privilege is not per se reversible error.”
  • same policies underlying the privilege that permit an adverse inference against a party likewise allow an adverse inference against a non-party
  • past or present corporate employees

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Judges: Weis, Mansmann, Hunter

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