5th Amendment Strategy For Parallel Civil, Criminal Litigation

By Joshua Robbins ( August 8, 2019, 4:09 PM EDT) -- Civil litigation is tense in the best of times. But the pressure takes on a new dimension when the specter of criminal liability looms over the case. In several recent high-profile civil cases — such as actress Ashley Judd's defamation lawsuit against film producer Harvey Weinstein, gymnast Aly Raisman's sexual assault case against the U.S. Olympic Committee, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's action against former Theranos Inc. executive Sunny Balwani — the presence of parallel criminal proceedings has complicated the discovery process and raised vexing procedural questions....

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