Yeshiva New Haven High School Faces $21 Million Sex Abuse Award

Yeshiva of New Haven High School and its former chief administrator failed to shake off a $21 million sex abuse award to a former student after the Second Circuit upheld the jury instructions on Fifth Amendment privilege.

There was nothing wrong with the instruction that jurors could draw negative inferences from the fact that the school’s former administrator, Rabbi Daniel Greer, invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege to remain silent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Tuesday.

The trial court wasn’t obliged to tell the jury that Greer may have asserted the privilege for a variety of ...