Can a plaintiff make a blanket claim of privilege that all information sought is protected by privilege against self-incrimination?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from United States v. Torrance, No. 2:18-cv-1631-JAM-EFB-PS (E.D. Cal. 2020):

blanket claim that all information sought is protected by the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination. ECF No. 31-2 4-7; see United States v. Christensen, 825 F.3d 763, 803 (9th Cir. 2015) ("The claim of privilege must be made and sustained on a question-by-question or document-by-document basis; a blanket claim of privilege is unacceptable."); United States v. Brown, 918 F.2d 82, 84 (9th Cir. 1990) ("[W]hile the assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimination may be a valid ground upon which a witness . . . declines to answer questions, it has never been thought to be in itself a substitute for evidence that would assist in meeting a burden of production.").

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