subpoena
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Its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, immediately launched a thorough investigation, filing multiple subpoena requests in federal district court seeking information on the leakers from Microsoft, Discord, X and YouTube.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Eighteen years later, the FBI would hand the notebook page to the court in the 9/11 families' lawsuit, following a subpoena.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
DHS meanwhile issued a subpoena for the same records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In May, the California Energy Commissions served Golden State Wind with a subpoena seeking information on the buyout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The subpoena ordered me to appear in court at 9:00 a.m. on May 6, 2002—to testify on behalf of Bobby Frank Cherry!
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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We’ve heard nothing about access and audit-log analysis, government computer and phone forensics, or efforts to obtain third-party communications — which can involve subpoenas, court orders or warrants.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
But the most revealing part of the BBC’s filing isn’t the subpoenas themselves — it’s the account of what happened when the network tried to serve them.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Court filings show that representatives for the BBC's legal team attempted in May to serve subpoenas to the president's son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Justice Department withdrew the subpoenas last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Though the subpoenas had finally stopped coming, Deborah didn’t believe the lawsuit was truly over.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Also as a result of her piece, she was slapped with a one-million-dollar libel suit, subpoenaed as a witness in a liquor laws case against the Playboy Club, and received “obscene and threatening” calls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
The White House later subpoenaed the Times journalists over the report, demanding to know who disclosed the information, and even brought FBI Director Kash Patel into the investigation.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Paul, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, had subpoenaed the now-retired Fauci to testify, and prior to the hearing released thousands of pages of the immunologist's unredacted personal diary.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The phone-record subpoenas began July 10, the same day three of the journalists were subpoenaed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When he finished, he announced that the trial would be postponed until Wednesday morning because the prosecution and the defense wanted to interview surprise witnesses the prosecution had just subpoenaed.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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After subpoenaing records on about 130 people, only one had been referred for prosecution, his staff had told him.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Critics said profit had become more important than the supporter experience, with the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey subpoenaing Fifa to answer questions about its ticketing practices.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Recent events, however, have cast a chilling shadow over their pursuits. Law-enforcement agencies have resorted to clandestine tactics, subpoenaing emails and phone records in an effort to unmask confidential sources.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
The rest of the material the panel obtained—often by subpoenaing agencies and individuals—was expected to enter the National Archives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
The German had swung around toward the men behind him, as though he were subpoenaing them as witnesses.
From Captain Macklin by Richard Harding Davis
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