· 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
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- 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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