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Imprisonment for civil contempt can be of unlimited duration, but the purpose of it is to force you to give up the information. Once you have been in jail long enough for the judge…

U.S. v. Hubbell, citing U.S. v. Doe. For these reasons, we cannot accept the Government's submission that respondent's immunity did not preclude its derivative use of the produced …

Criminal contempt would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and the elements of proving the defendant's failure to provide the encryption key would include (1) showing tha…

Shorter Version: It does not matter whether the government forces you to do something (e.g. open a combination lock), as opposed to providing information (e.g. tell them the combin…