Word: subpoenaing
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Once a judge grants the request to start the discovery process, the RIAA can then subpoena the identity of the individual in question. Once an identity has been revealed, the original lawsuit is changed to include the subscriber’s name, according to information sent by Engebretsen...
...headlines in the late 1970s when she testified before the Senate Ethics Committee against her estranged husband, Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge; in Atlanta. A witty Southerner who started and ran a successful business, she learned on a TV news show that her husband planned to divorce her. Later, under subpoena, she testified that he kept bundles of $100 bills, allegedly unreported donations, in a coat pocket in the couple's hall closet. Although he denied that and other charges, she turned over 77 of the bills from the stash, which she said she had often relied on to supplement...
...Medvid, the Ukrainian sailor from a Soviet grain freighter who jumped ship twice, only to be returned both times. After Ukrainian-American groups protested that Medvid had been pressured by the Soviets into retracting his request for asylum, Republican Senator Jesse Helms took the extraordinary step of issuing a subpoena for Medvid to appear before a Senate committee (see following story...
...inept handling of the case set off a storm on Capitol Hill. Since corn shipments were involved, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued a subpoena ordering Medvid to appear before the committee. Helms' aides served the paper on the ship's captain, but Soviet officials announced that they would not comply. In fact, the Senate committee had no practical way to enforce its subpoena, and the ship's departure showed the futility of trying to clean up a diplomatic mess through congressional intervention...
...such cases, the plaintiff typically would subpoena the colleges and universities involved in order to obtain the names of the people using those IP addresses...