Rich v. Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia

How courts have described this case

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• if invoking the Fifth Amendment privilege imposes undue sanctions or penalties on a defendant, “a court may in its discretion stay proceedings, or postpone civil discovery”
• “[B]y proceeding first with the criminal prosecution, the Court makes efficient use of judicial time and resources by insuring that common issues of fact will be resolved and subsequent civil discovery will proceed unobstructed by concerns regarding self-incrimination.”
• “[T]he strongest case for 18 deferring civil proceedings until after completion of criminal proceedings is where a party under 19 indictment for a serious offense is required to defend a civil action involving the same matter.”
• “By proceeding first with the criminal prosecution, the Court makes efficient use of judicial time and resources by insuring that common issues of fact will be resolved and subsequent civil discovery will proceed unobstructed by concerns regarding self-incrimination.”
• “[T]he strongest case for deferring civil 11 | proceedings until after completion of criminal proceedings is where a party under indictment for a 12 | serious offense is required to defend a civil action involving the same matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).