S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Morris

¶ 1. Tom Russell and Thomas H. Buske raise a host of issues, most of them without merit. But three issues are novel and require us to discuss them at length. We will identify these three issues and give our brief answer first and then discuss them seriatim. After that, we will deal with the meritless issues. Ultimately, we affirm the trial court in all respects.

¶ 2. The first issue concerns a party's continuous invocation of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination in a civil action where that party later waives the privilege in the middle of trial when all discovery and…