subpoena
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It was not only a confession but a road map, with the email addresses and phone numbers of people Kao thought agents ought to subpoena.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
But the court held only that the nonprofit had standing to challenge the state’s subpoena and declined to decide whether the disclosure demand was constitutional.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In March, a California state appellate court ordered the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office to comply with a subpoena from an oversight entity for records related to a whistleblower inquiry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Two federal judges in New York approved the subpoena requests, which had been filed a day earlier, according to court documents reviewed by AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
“If you’ve been served with a legal subpoena and you don’t show up, the judge can have you arrested.”
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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Prosecutors had to later withdraw the subpoenas after realizing information the witnesses would need to discuss with grand jurors was classified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
And the Civilian Oversight Commission filed suit against the department in June for declining to provide certain records related to three cases of use of force the commission issued subpoenas for in February 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The probe was opened recently and the agency plans to send civil subpoenas to the two companies in the coming weeks, a senior FTC official said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
In Stearns County in central Minnesota, HSI agents subpoenaed voting histories on 13 people, county officials told ProPublica.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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
Last year, the commission subpoenaed the Sheriff’s Department for unredacted records associated with each of the cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights.
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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Justice Department officials in Washington at the time wanted prosecutors to speed up their process, including by subpoenaing witnesses to testify directly before a grand jury, without any FBI interview first, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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
The Justice Department had just elevated the matter by subpoenaing Trump for the records, and Trump wanted her advice.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024
If they believe there is a potential case to be made, they could also start subpoenaing bank records, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
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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