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subpoena

[suh-pee-nuh, suhb-] / səˈpi nə, səb- /




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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

Six years ago, county voters approved a measure granting the commission subpoena powers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

DHS meanwhile issued a subpoena for the same records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

Two women with some young children went in first, then some white men, each holding up his subpoena for the deputy.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

Bill Essayli, the lead federal prosecutor in Los Angeles whose office has previously sent Logan’s office a series of grand jury subpoenas for individual voter records as part of a criminal investigation into illegal voting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said subpoenas have been served and “nobody will be getting a free pass because their name is carved into an expensive building.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Hospitals and patients have successfully challenged a number of the subpoenas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

In Stearns County in central Minnesota, HSI agents subpoenaed voting histories on 13 people, county officials told ProPublica.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Last month, JPMorgan was one of several banks subpoenaed by the Justice Department on the subject.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

State officials in California are already investigating the deal with Golden State Wind; the California Energy Commission has subpoenaed details about the payout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

“When they set a date for the trial, Brady, you’ll be subpoenaed to appear in court as a witness.”

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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

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

Then they got over 100,000 pages more after subpoenaing federal prosecutors themselves in January.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 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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