Word: subpoenae
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...offense is serious enough to merit court action, the Ad Board will usually delay its decision to avoid creating paperwork the court could subpoena, says Cabot House senior tutor Robert H. Neugeboren...
...current IOP fellow and Kennedy school alum, reminded me of another piece of modern Harvard lore. The legend goes like this: There was once a Guatemalan military officer studying at the Kennedy school who received not one but two documents on Commencement Day--his diploma and a subpoena to answer to charges of human rights violations...
...York lawyer and editor of a website called CyberSecuritiesLaw. "But these messages go out to so many people that they're very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster's name to the authorities. And that's something a good off-line work pal would never...
...Johnsons, backed by a state appellate court and, now, the State Supreme Court, are forcing Donor 276 (very much against his will) to testify in their case against the sperm bank. The donor, who has fought the subpoena mightily, will be called as a reluctant but potentially damaging witness for the prosecution. It's not hard to understand his reticence - this guy probably thought he'd head in to the sperm bank, make his deposit and high-tail it out of there, check in hand and heart filled with thoughts of untold numbers of happy babies with his nose...
...Johnsons' attorneys argue that the donor needs to appear in order to establish the practices of the sperm bank and keep other donors from supplying genetically questionable specimens. Donor 276's lawyers claim the subpoena is a violation of their client's right to privacy, but the California Supreme Court took the Johnsons' side, passing down their judgment without comment: The appellate decision, ordering the donor to appear in court, will stand. And so there may be a very weird moment looming on Donor 276's horizon, in which he encounters the reality of a daughter he'd never imagined...