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 ...

The Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause promises "just compensation" when private property is taken for public use.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a virtual deposition with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday that aimed to get more details on how her accomplice, dead ...

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, ...

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.