Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow, were not to know what a fateful day Oct. 20 was for the presidency: Special Prosecutor Cox refused to accept summaries of the Nixon tapes reviewed by Senator Stennis; he wanted the tapes themselves; he rejected Nixon's order that he renounce the right to subpoena further documents. Nixon forced a showdown by sacking Cox, which led to the resignation of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and the firing of Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus...
Martin ignored a subpoena to appear before a grand jury on Aug. 11, and then hatched a more outlandish version of what had happened: a black-masked member of "the Guardian Angels of the Underworld" had carried out the ambush to prevent him from exposing the satanic cult. On Aug. 17, Martin ducked another grand jury appearance-for his own safety, he said...
...look into such dubious practices, and it disbanded a year ago. The Senate subcommittee, dissatisfied with the results, undertook its own review of the investigation. The new report charges that Labor's Special Investigations Staff hired only 28 of its authorized complement of 45 investigators, was deprived of subpoena power as a matter of department policy and was prevented by "bureaucratic infighting and naivete" from working with the Justice Department to build criminal cases. Most incredibly, the task force was ordered by Labor higher-ups not to conduct "third party" inquiries-that is, to disregard officially the unsavory recipients...
Meanwhile, though, Mass General has declined to comply with a request from Congress to reveal the details of its agreement with Hoechst, a position that will no doubt continue to create distrust and may result in a formal subpoena, staffers on the Science and Technology Committee say. Harvard does not anticipate formal investigation of the Du Pont grant, but the same Congressional sources indicate that they will scrutinize the information available before deciding whether the public deserves to know more. "Unless we hear some good reason, there seems to be no benefit in this type of interference," Lamont-Havers says...
When Circuit Court Judge Byron Kinder stepped to the bench in his Jefferson City, Mo., courtroom one day last week, he looked down on an unusual audience: 100 lawyers. They were not there by choice; they had come in response to a subpoena that warned, "Fail not to appear at your own peril." All 100 work for Missouri agencies based in Jefferson City, the state capital. In a drastic and perhaps unprecedented step, Kinder had summoned them so that he could press them into service as public defenders for indigent criminal defendants...