Word: rodberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision rebuffs the attempts of government attorneys to subpoena Dr. Leonard Rodberg, an aide to Gravel, and Howard Webber, head of the MIT Press, whom Gravel reportedly contacted about publication of the Pentagon Papers...
...Rodberg said yesterday that he was glad the court had recognized Gravel's claim...
Gravel's motion arises from a grand jury subpoena served on Leonard S. Rodberg, a physicist at the Institute for Policy Studies whom Gravel hired as an administrative aide to help publish his edition of the Pentagon study...
...Rodberg asked Garrity to quash the subpoena last month on the grounds that it violated Gravel's legislative immunity, Garrity ruled that Rodberg could refuse to discuss actual Congressional business but that he must still testify. Gravel and Rodberg then appealed to the circuit court...
They asked the court to quash Rodberg's subpoena and to provide in the future both a statement of "the purpose and scope of the government's inquiry" and "a list of witnesses in advance" so that the defense can determine which witnesses can claim legislative privilege...