Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has aroused these and other members of the bar association is a small retail emporium known as The Law Store, which has been open for business since the spring in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks, next to Mogo's Mongolian Barbecue and a subpoena's throw from Super Cow's Soft Frozen Yogurt. The Law Store customers pay $9.95 to pick up a store telephone and consult with one of eight part-time attorneys in the West Los Angeles offices of Group Legal Services, Inc., owner of the store. For an additional $10, attorneys will write...
...notes for a series of investigative articles that had spurred the prosecution of Jascalevitch. Farber and the Times had argued that the defense had failed to show that any information gleaned from such an examination would be relevant to Jascalevitch's defense, and, more importantly, that such a subpoena violated First Amendment guarantees of press freedom. Jascalevitch's counsel responded that he could not demonstrate the relevance of material he had not been permitted to see, and that a refusal to make the material available to the defense would effectively deny Dr. Jascalevitch his Sixth Amendment right to a fair...
...Jersey Supreme Court upheld criminal contempt charges against Myron Farber and The New York Times, rejecting arguments that the first amendment allows a reporter to shield notes and confidential sources. The right of the defendant in the murder case, Dr. Philip Jascelevich, to subpoena testimony in his defense overrides Farber's rights of confidentiality, the court said...
...Times's counsel, sharply criticized Lacey for making the book an issue when it was "absolutely, totally irrelevant" to the reason why Farber's lawyers had asked for the writ-simply, to get Farber released until a court decides the merits of his claim. Nonetheless, fearing a subpoena for the book and yet another contempt citation if Farber refused to turn over his manuscript, the lawyers hastily withdrew their habeas petition...
...evidence do indeed have the right to push unannounced into a newsroom?or any other place?as long as a judge has issued a search warrant, even if the occupant is not suspected of involvement in a crime. The majority rejected the contentions that police should first seek a subpoena, which can be contested in court, and that freedom of the press under the First Amendment gives newsrooms much more protection against unreasonable searches and seizures than is granted, say, to banks or doctors' offices or private residences, under the Fourth Amendment. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White concluded...