Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty The typical reaction to anyone invoking the Fifth Amendment under ...

Annie Tomasini on Friday became the third Biden administration official to plead the Fifth Amendment in a House panel's investigation into former President Joe Biden's mental fitness and use of a ...

A federal judge has delivered one of the sharpest legal rebukes yet to President Donald Trump’s use of federal money as a political weapon, ruling that his administration’s decision to cancel clean ...

In November, energy groups filed a lawsuit against Sec. of Energy Christopher Wright and other government agencies involved ...

Annie Tomasini, former assistant to President Joe Biden, pleaded the Fifth during a closed-door deposition regarding Biden’s mental decline, House Oversight Chair James Comer said Friday. Tomasini, ...

Jeff S. Korek, of Gersowitz Libo & Korek, examines the ramification if a civil defendant invokes the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Can a plaintiff's attorney in the civil action use the ...

The House Oversight Committee released footage of former Biden aide Annie Tomasini hours after she repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during her deposition Friday morning. Tomasini was appearing ...

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 said.

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 ...

The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, states, in part: “No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Every ...

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.