Word: subpoena
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...University recently rebuffed the efforts of the tobacco industry to subpoena a half-century of Harvard research records...
According to University Attorney Diane E. Lopez, Harvard received a legal notice this fall from the industry’s lawyers asking for all the records from any federally funded scientific research involving smoking within the last 50 years. The subpoena also asked for documents on 54 specific research projects conducted by the University since...
However, the subpoena is part of the tobacco industry’s defense efforts against the ongoing lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in the fall of 1999. The suit seeks billions of dollars in damages from the companies to reimburse the government for its expenditures on smoking-related health care costs...
...consultation with others in the firm" organized the destruction of documents as Enron's losses mounted in October. Seeking to put as much distance as possible between the home office and a wayward Houston branch, the company pointed out that all shredding had ceased once the sec issued a subpoena in the Enron matter. As a former Andersen partner in Chicago told Time, "The issue of document deletion is entirely dependent on when the organization was aware that there might be a liability issue. Liability begins once there is knowledge...
...Andersen lawyer, which was the story Duncan was telling congressional investigators deep into Wednesday night. But he sure knew enough to go on a shredding-and-deleting rampage that, the firm says, lasted from Oct. 23 to "shortly after" Nov. 9, the day the SEC sent over its subpoena...