You can’t plead the fifth in a civil suit.
“You can’t plead the fifth in a civil suit.”
According to Wiki, you can:
“The Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory self-incrimination applies when an individual is called to testify in a legal proceeding. The Supreme Court ruled that the privilege applies whether the witness is in a federal court or, under the incorporation doctrine of the Fourteenth Amendment, in a state court, and whether the proceeding itself is criminal or civil.”