Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young lawyers, trying to serve a subpoena on a TV-repair store owner, thought it would be a lark to slip into their recalcitrant quarry's headquarters and surprise him. But when they got inside, one of them was elbowed in the stomach, and an ominous-looking man said to his boss, "If they gave that paper to me, I'd just put a bullet in em." The attorneys barely managed to talk their...
...Union passed, by a vote of 57 to 41, a motion to have the commission hold open hearings April 11-15 and subpoena members of the Administration to explain their decisions. The motion specified that the hearings were investigations and not negotiations...
...subpoena was handed to Herrnstein by Richard S. Haber '73, the roommate of a member of Harvard SDS. Under the law, any "disinterested person" is allowed to serve a subpoena...
...Hughes left Nassau because the Bahamian government suddenly found that several of his aides-the "Mormon Mafia" -did not have the work permits required of foreigners. Actually, the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which is conducting a grand jury investigation of the Irving hoax, had issued a subpoena for Hughes to testify. On Valentine's Day, U.S. postal inspectors appeared in Nassau with the summons; federal officials intended to impanel a grand jury in either Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands to hear Hughes -at night, if he so desired. The postal inspectors consulted with Bahamian officials...
...Bahamians obliged by arranging to create a commotion over the Hughes aides' work permits, hoping that somehow the subpoena could be served in the confusion. A raiding party of 20 Bahamians-police, immigration agents and others-appeared at the Hughes fastness at 2 a.m. last Tuesday; they got no farther than Hughes' foyer. Stymied, the Bahamians issued an ultimatum that four of Hughes' entourage must leave the country within two hours because they lacked proper work permits...