The Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 ruling in Kelo v. City of New London (2005), held that private "economic development" is enough to satisfy the Fifth Amendment requirement that the government can ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former madame of late sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, invoked the 5th Amendment during her deposition before the House Oversight Committee. "As expected, Ghislaine Maxwell took ...

Ghislaine Maxwell intends to plead the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination during her Monday deposition in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, her attorney, David ...

Former President Trump announced he’d invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during a deposition by the New York Attorney General on Wednesday, joining a number of prominent Republicans in his orbit who ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, invoked the Fifth Amendment during the closed-door virtual deposition before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, according to ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of convicted sex offender and deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to invoke her Fifth Amendment privileges in Monday’s congressional deposition ...

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.

In many western democracies, the way this would play out would be that the press (and opposition parties) would hound the politicians mercilessly until they resigned in shame and disgrace. In the UK, ...