Civil Litigation,
Law Practice
Aug. 20, 2019
How to plead the 5th more than 100 times and still win
“To be fair, this wasn’t something that we wanted to do; this is what we had to do,” said lead defense attorney Paul Murphy of Murphy Rosen in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES -- With his attorney sitting by his side in the witness stand of a Los Angeles federal courtroom, recent Chinese immigrant and business owner Tony Hang looked down at a piece of paper to aid him in invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination for the 100th time.
The trial in May included several seldom-seen elements. Not only was it brought under the False Claims Act -- a type of case rarely taken to tri...
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