Criminal,
Civil Rights,
Civil Litigation
Jan. 26, 2022
Plaintiffs’ 5th Amendment rights claim can’t stay civil case
Contractors hired by PG&E to clean up after the 2018 Camp Fire sued the utility for fraud. Now they face a federal grand jury investigation into whether they defrauded the utility.
Companies that accused Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of failing to pay them for cleanup work after the 2018 Camp Fire, which decimated the town of Paradise, cannot halt trial proceedings even though they now are the subject of a criminal investigation by a federal grand jury, a judge ruled.
"A defendant has no absolute right not to be forced to choose between testifying in a civil matter and asserting his Fifth Amendment privilege" and "a...
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