Scarfia v. Holiday Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• “In order to properly invoke the privilege, therefore, a debtor must produce, for the court, credible reasons why his answers would incriminate him.”
• “In order to properly invoke the privilege, therefore, a debtor must produce, for the court, credible reasons why his answers would incriminate him.”
• “While a debtor is entitled to invoke his fifth amendment right to refuse responses in a bankruptcy proceeding, a discharge in bankruptcy is neither an inherent nor a constitutional right” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).