Word: subpoenae
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...hazard for every passing guest. Tripped up by Henry Moore's sprawling, 800-lb. King and Queen, a white-jacketed waiter crashed down in bubbly embarrassment. At least one person was served something besides refreshment: at the moment he least expected it, Artist Larry Rivers was handed a subpoena from the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, which claims he violated a contract to join monolithic Marlborough's stable of 52 artists. For some reason, the beneficiaries of the party were neither painters nor sculptors, but rather the Musicians Emergency Fund. They were left far from broke by the baroque...
Neither Barshak nor Washington appeared at the Police Review Board hearing. Barshak had protested the hearing's procedures, under which his client was not allowed full rights of counsel. Washington's failure to appear was in defiance of a subpoena, which Barshak contends the Police Board did not have the right to serve...
...broken down into nine categories, one of which is specifically for "radio and television." This category is a particularly important one. Not only are radio and television major items of expense in most campaigns, but they are the only items that can be conclusively checked without the power of subpoena. According to FCC regulations all radio and television stations must make available to the public, upon request, their own records of time purchased by political candidates. This prevents what is known as "picking up the tab," a practice by which anonymous groups or individuals pay for political expenses (like newspaper...
...importance of the death to the Estes case was emphasized in a legal wrangle between Texas Attorney General Will Wilson and federal officials over an Agriculture Department report on Estes' cotton dealings to which Marshall had apparently contributed. Wilson tried to subpoena the whole report. But Secretary Orville Freeman's Agriculture Department was willing to divulge only excerpts...
...convent of her own choice, near Avignon. Against her had been lodged only the minor civil charge of using a false identity card. Her husband remains in Cell 57 of Sante Prison, preparing to go on trial for his life next week. His request to subpoena President de Gaulle and ex-Presidents Rene Coty and Vincent Auriol among 39 defense witnesses has been refused. But he has been granted use of an electric razor to shave off the mustache he was wearing as a disguise when captured...