Word: subpoenaing
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Facebook.com’s rival social networking site, ConnectU LLC, has subpoenaed The Harvard Crimson for all materials related to the newspaper’s reporting on the two companies as part of an ongoing lawsuit in the U.S. District Court. The move, if upheld by a judge, would require the newspaper to release all correspondences, e-mails, and notes of interviews its reporters had with either party by Dec. 1. The creators of ConnectU LLC allege in their lawsuit that facebook.com creator, Mark E. Zuckerberg, stole the concept for his popular networking site from an earlier venture, Harvard...
...Abramoff and onetime aide to former Republican Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay-was indicted on a conspiracy charge. Scanlon is expected to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors investigating possible corruption among lobbyists, congressmen and staffers. A legal team for DeLay, himself under indictment in Texas, may try to subpoena former grand jury members to show the Texas prosecutor mishandled his case against DeLay...
...pointed remarks against President Bush and the rest of his administration. “We’ve got to get rid of these guys,” Franken said. He said he even hopes that the mid-term 2006 elections will be a showcase for “subpoena power,” with voters punishing the Republicans for current scandals involving Tom DeLay and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Referring to September 11 as Bush’s “little black dress”—since according to Franken...
...cases of the New York Times and TIME journalists both involved the surrender of documents, although under different circumstances. Miller, who never actually wrote a story based on her reporting about the Plame leak, was originally subpoenaed along with the Times. After the newspaper said it had no relevant documents to hand over and that Miller's notes--and the decision whether to turn them over--belonged to her alone, the court pursued only the subpoena against Miller. (The notes she gave up were redacted to omit discussions about anything other than Plame.) In the Cooper case, the prosecutor went...
...provincial hometown of Chascomas. About 130 officers and soldiers, led by Army Major Ernesto Barreiro, were holed up in an army barracks near the city of Cordoba, some 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Barreiro had just been cashiered for refusing to obey a civilian court subpoena to answer charges of human-rights atrocities committed in the 1970s during the army's war against alleged leftist subversives. Now, angered by the ongoing human-rights prosecutions, he and his fellow rebels were demanding amnesty for all accused officers...