Word: subpoena
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...after the peace accords of 1973, he became convinced that there were no more Americans being held prisoner in Vietnam, but later he became equally positive that there were and are -- why he has never made clear. He speaks darkly of secret informants who would talk publicly only under subpoena, but has refused to give their names to a congressional subcommittee that pledged to subpoena them. In 1985 he contravened U.S. policy by proposing to pay $10 million for each American that the Vietnamese released, and in 1987 he made a trip to Hanoi, where, government officials grumble, he came...
...against beard shavings taken from a missing soldier's electric razor. But civil libertarians fear that this might be the precursor to a national DNA screening program. The Army insists that the samples will not be tested for AIDS, drug use or anything else. In the event of a subpoena issued as part of a criminal investigation, however, the Army would be forced to comply...
...classic check-kiting scheme," the Justice Department counsel, Malcolm R. Wilkey, requested the bank records for all the members of Congress -- those who had been cited for overdrafts as well as 170 who hadn't. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley and other Democrats argued that the sweeping subpoena violated the members' right of privacy, as well as Congress's constitutionally guaranteed independence. But fears of inciting more voter outrage over the check-bouncing scandal -- which has focused mainly on their party -- won the day: 131 Democrats joined the unanimous Republicans to defeat a motion that would have challenged the subpoena...
...House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice held a two- day hearing on the crash in December 1990. It ended without a call for action, despite surprising revelations of FBI apathy. Last week Tallon announced that he would introduce a bill to establish a commission with full subpoena power to investigate the crash the way it should have been examined seven years...
Therefore, the court should allow the students to go forward with the case and grant them the subpoena rights needed to determine whether the Law School is really playing fair...