"It is well-established that a party's invocation of the Fifth Amendment in a civil or administrative proceeding may form the basis of an adverse factual inference," Acting Justice O. Peter Sherwood ...

Jed I. Bergman and Cynthia M. Jordano summarize the key principles courts generally apply in deciding whether to permit Fifth Amendment adverse inferences in civil suits against corporate defendants.

The US House Oversight Committee’s renewed probe into the Epstein Files stalled on Monday after Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer ...

Ghislaine Maxwell invokes her 5th Amendment rights, declining to answer questions in the Epstein case.