Mr Duncan pleaded the fifth amendment, refusing to answer questions for fear of incriminating himself.
He was subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee on February 12th, but pleaded the Fifth Amendment, refusing to say anything in order to avoid incriminating himself.
At that hearing, the lead auditor for Andersen, David Duncan David Duncan, invoked the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer questions by lawmakers into Andersen's actions in the wake of an initial inquiry into Enron by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Those in favor of the amendments refused to consider a test run or requiring the county to certify that it could pull off fully meshed elections without problems.
Having agreed with the plaintiffs that the program violated the Fourth Amendment, Leon refused to rule preliminarily on their other claims.
Nina Totenberg of NPR (represented by Floyd Abrams and Tim Phelpss of Newsday (represented by Ted Olson) cited the First Amendment and refused to identify sources.
When the new-style delegates overwhelmingly nominated McGovern as their presidential candidate, the AFL/CIO trade union federation, still smarting from his failure to vote as promised on an important closed-shop amendment, flatly refused to endorse him.
The mass detention and inspection were constitutionally valid, he said, and, while the strip search was so intrusive as to violate the Fourth Amendment, he refused to award damages against the school authorities, because they had been acting in good faith and trying to keep the school safe.
That is an interesting question because one of the significant contributions made to British cinema was the House of Un-American Activities Cofmithee of the 1940s and 50s where people, rather than inform on the politics of their friends, either took the Fifth Amendment or refused to work under those conditions, and many left to work in the UK.
Richard Buy Richard Buy, Enron's chief risk officer, and Richard Causey Richard Causey, its chief accounting officer, also invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions.
