United States First Circuit

Testimony before State Bar involving bankruptcy petition under threat of adverse inference and possible disbarment was too conditional to establish a conclusion that testimony was compelled in contravention of the Fifth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2000
• Decided 11/28/2000
• Published 11/30/2000

Judges

• LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin S. Nixon for appellant Cheryl B. Stein., John J.E. Markham, II with whom Markham & Read was on brief for appellant Wendy B. Golenbock., Richard D. Biggs with whom Marcia G. Shein and the Law Office of Shein & Biggs were on brief for appellant Susan Otis.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark J. Balthazard, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.