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subpoena

[suh-pee-nuh, suhb-] / səˈpi nə, səb- /




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Mejia’s subpoena, issued under his City Charter authority, came two and a half weeks after officials at LA28, the Olympic organizing committee, rejected his previous request to disclose the information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, immediately launched a thorough investigation, filing multiple subpoena requests in federal district court seeking information on the leakers from Microsoft, Discord, X and YouTube.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Eighteen years later, the FBI would hand the notebook page to the court in the 9/11 families' lawsuit, following a subpoena.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

DHS meanwhile issued a subpoena for the same records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

One of the deputies checked my subpoena and let me and Grampa in.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

Ball named Hartman; his business partner, Knight; and their company, Integer, as the formal subjects of the probe, as they prepared to potentially issue subpoenas and gather more evidence.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Authorities have also issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, including to her relatives.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Section 217 of the City Charter grants the controller and other city officers the power to order individuals to produce documents and to attend hearings, with subpoenas issued via the City Clerk’s office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Prosecutors had to later withdraw the subpoenas after realizing information the witnesses would need to discuss with grand jurors was classified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

He sued ten defendants in all, and several of the Hopkins employees involved had never heard of Cofield or Henrietta Lacks before their subpoenas arrived.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

In Stearns County in central Minnesota, HSI agents subpoenaed voting histories on 13 people, county officials told ProPublica.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Paul, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, had subpoenaed the now-retired Fauci to testify, and prior to the hearing released thousands of pages of the immunologist's unredacted personal diary.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The phone-record subpoenas began July 10, the same day three of the journalists were subpoenaed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The Washington Post reported last month that one of its journalists was subpoenaed related to “sensitive reporting about a national security matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

“Family and subpoenaed witnesses first. Step on back and let ’em get up here.”

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

Justice Department officials in Washington at the time wanted prosecutors to speed up their process, including by subpoenaing witnesses to testify directly before a grand jury, without any FBI interview first, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Critics said profit had become more important than the supporter experience, with the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey subpoenaing Fifa to answer questions about its ticketing practices.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The Justice Department had just elevated the matter by subpoenaing Trump for the records, and Trump wanted her advice.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

If they believe there is a potential case to be made, they could also start subpoenaing bank records, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

The German had swung around toward the men behind him, as though he were subpoenaing them as witnesses.

From Captain Macklin by Richard Harding Davis


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