Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith walks on Capitol Hill on December 17, 2025. - Annabelle Gordon/Reuters Former special counsel ...

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 New York Times is suing the Department of War over its new policy that bars journalists from entering the Pentagon for not adhering to its newsgathering terms. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U ...

In a Detroit federal courtroom on August 19, Chengxuan Han, a 28-year-old Chinese doctoral student at the University of Michigan (U-Mich), entered a plea of nolo contendere, or “no contest,” to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump invoked the Fifth Amendment and wouldn’t answer questions under oath in the New York attorney general’s long-running civil investigation into his business dealings, the ...

The mother of a missing autistic 11-year-old boy has again refused to say where her son is, speaking not a word when she appeared in Brooklyn Family Court Thursday. Jacqueline Pritchett through her ...

(CNN) — Former special counsel Jack Smith did not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights during eight hours of testimony Wednesday behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, the panel’s chairman ...