Word: subpoenae
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...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...
Meanwhile, Mrs. Gandhi continues to face a full-scale investigation by a government-appointed panel. This week she must respond to a subpoena from the commission headed by former Supreme Court Justice J.C. Shah. For the past four months the commission has heard testimony implicating Mrs. Gandhi and her high-rolling son Sanjay in crimes ranging from improper seizure of dictatorial powers and persecution of their opponents to the uprooting of 700,000 hapless citizens of New Delhi in a beautification campaign. Tearful witnesses testified that police entered their houses and beat up women and children in their zeal...
Instead they feared the subpoena, feared the damage they might do if they knew too much and were called before the grand jury or Congressional committees. "Part of the problem throughout Watergate--part of the reason we blundered so badly, from start to finish, was that there was this sense of a need not to know a lot of things, partly because of this question of if you're called on to testify," Price says. Throughout the White House, you had individuals "not knowing what various people's liabilities might be, imagining as a possibility the worst as well...
...jail before he would ever divulge the identity of his source. Two months prior to his confrontation with Congress, Schorr, through a public statement, told the House Ethics Committee investigating the leak that he would "not give any testimony about the source." Nevertheless, the panel issued a subpoena requiring the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent to testify and face contempt of Congress charges if he refused either to appear or to answer question under oath...
PERHAPS THE STRONGEST argument advanced against a Helms trial drew heavily on the complications resulting from efforts by Helms' counsel to subpoena sensitive national security documents to use in the courtroom proceedings, a move that might have forced prosecutors to dismiss the case in midtrial. This contention, however, does not bear up under close scrutiny. All requested materials of this nature would have been referred directly to the trial judge, who would have determined each document's relevance. Handing over this weighty responsibility to a presumably independent judge unhindered by political considerations would have proven to be the wisest move...