Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berger advised the Senate to follow Senator Sam J. Ervin's (D-N.C.) suggestion to use subpoena and arrest procedures to force the executive privilege matter into the courts...
Specifically, Time Inc. proposed that the law cover both the issuance of subpoenas and conditions under which confidential information would be disclosed: "A subpoena for a reporter's testimony and material should not be issued unless it is established at a prior court hearing that the reporter has relevant information that cannot be obtained from any other source, and that the information is so important that lack of it might result in a miscarriage of justice...
Even if a subpoena is then approved, "a reporter should not be compelled to disclose confidential sources unless it can be demonstrated that there is imminent danger of loss of life if he does not disclose such information, or that he has essential information on a violent crime such as murder, kidnaping or skyjacking. Another criterion, which the Congress will no doubt consider, is overriding danger to the national security, though this concept is easily abused and extremely difficult to define...
...financial wizards of organized U.S. crime, at last got his comeuppance, or at least some of his comeuppance. On the lam from the IRS since 1970, he was refused Israeli citizenship. Lansky finally returned to Miami to face trial on a criminal contempt charge-for failure to obey a subpoena. Lansky swore that his doctor had declared him too ill to make the long trip home. Nonetheless, the jury found him guilty. Now Lansky faces a charge of income tax evasion and one of skimming the profits off Las Vegas casinos, both with long-term sentences. After posting bonds totaling...
...sweep of the subpoenas brought a sharp retort from news executives. New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said: "The Times will take all legal steps to have the subpoena quashed." Officials of TIME declared that such a sweeping subpoena is "an invasion" of Fischer's rights under the First Amendment. They explained that "While Time Inc.'s policy does not demand resistance to every subpoena of a newsman, the crucial factor here is that there has been no showing whatsoever that the documents and information demanded of Mr. Fischer are necessary to the resolution of the case...