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EvidenceProf Blog
Colorado Court of Appeals Finds Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Contemporaneous Advice of Counsel on a Question-by-Question Basis
By Colin Miller
The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination provides thatNo person...shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.So, does the Fifth Amendment also guarantee a testifying witness…
Zalma on Insurance
The Fifth Amendment & the Bad Faith Plaintiff
By Barry Zalma
A Video Explaining Why a Plaintiff Has no Right to Assert Fifth Amendment Protection See the full video at https://rumble.com/vjhmk5-the-fifth-amendment-and-the-bad-faith-plaintiff.html and at https://youtu.be/tVvD8-KGO9M The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution…
PrawfsBlawg
Some thoughts on Cosby
Main Thursday, July 01, 2021Some thoughts on CosbyI do not do criminal procedure, so I cannot pass on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in Cosby. I want to raise some…
Employer Labor Relations
In Cedar Point Nursery, the United States Supreme Court Strikes Down Restriction on the Right to Exclude Union Organizers from Private Property
By David Wilson, Timothy M. Hoppe, Nick Geannacopulos, and Jeffrey Berman Seyfarth Synopsis: California agricultural employers won big before the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday. In Cedar Point Nursery…
Supreme Court Update
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (No. 20-255), Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (No. 20-107), Collins v. Yellen (No. 19-422), Lange v. California (No. 20-18), NCAA v. Alston (No. 20-512), United States v. Arthrex (No. 19-1434), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System (No. 20-222)
By Tadhg Dooley, David R. Roth
Four new opinions today, including the case of the cussing cheerleader, Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. (No. 20-255), where the Court held (8-1) that, while schools may sometimes have…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Derek Chauvin’s Conviction Should Be Overturned
On April 20, 2021, after a brief deliberation, a jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin for second-degree unintentional murder (i.e., felony murder), second-degree manslaughter, and third-degree murder in connection…
Subject to Inquiry
The Perils of Pleading the Fifth in the Corporate Fraud Context
By Michael J. Podberesky, Patrick Rowan
“Pleading the Fifth” is one of the most commonly known phrases in our legal system, and the right against self-incrimination is one of the Constitution’s most meaningful protections. That said,…
The Right Coast
BREAKING: Chauvin takes the 5th; defense rests HotAir
If Derek Chauvin has a personal explanation for what happened to George Floyd, he s keeping it to himself. The former Minneapolis police officer declined to testify at his murder…
@theBar
Supreme Court to Decide Whether a Patent is a Compensatory Interest under the Fifth Amendment
Post Authored By: Peter Danos The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) has determined that the invalidation of a patent via an inter partes…
Does Crime Pay?
Doubling Down on Double Jeopardy: Federalism at Work in New York
By Mark R. Butscha, Jr., Emily J. Mathieu
Can you be prosecuted twice for the same crime? The question seems simple and, given the plain language of the Fifth Amendment (no person shall “be subject for the same…