Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFTER A CAMPUS PROTEST in 1971, police obtained a warrant to search the files of the Stanford Daily, an undergraduate newspaper. Since then, two courts have ruled that law enforcement officials must obtain a subpoena to search a newspaper office. Unlike a warrant, a subpoena gives warning before a search, allowing the paper to gather and submit only the documents, tapes or photographs specifically relevant to the case in question. Moreover, it provides the paper a chance to prove that it in fact has no pertinent material, as was the case at Stanford...
...most controversial stipulations in the bill, however, grant the commission the powers of subpoena, full immunity, and prosecution...
These were the central provisions discussed by the various speakers at the hearing before the Joint Judiciary Committee on Thursday. "The committee should consider carefully. Sisitsky said in his testimony, "the scope of the investigation, the power of subpoena, the question of immunity, and the membership of the proposed commission." And despite the confusion created by the committee's apparent intolerance of the public, they did just that...
...testifying for the adoption of the bill in its present form, Johnston urged the retention of the subpoena provision. He argued the commission would be nothing more than a "joke" without the authority to summon those individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation. The subpoena power would also invest the commission with the rights to obtain relevant information from other branches in the government currently pursuing their own investigations...
...surprisingly, no company willingly relinquishes its antediluvian employment practices. There is almost always enough money for a good fight, maybe even a little harassment. When 9to5 got Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti to sue three Boston publishing houses for unfair employment practices, one firm tried to subpoena 9to5's membership records. Although the suit was bound to fail, the company must have realized that the expense of a lawyer would hurt...