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subpoena

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




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It was not only a confession but a road map, with the email addresses and phone numbers of people Kao thought agents ought to subpoena.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

But the court held only that the nonprofit had standing to challenge the state’s subpoena and declined to decide whether the disclosure demand was constitutional.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

In May, the California Energy Commissions served Golden State Wind with a subpoena seeking information on the buyout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Sign here, and that lets the judge know you received this subpoena to appear in court.”

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

The Journal reported Wednesday that more than a dozen subpoenas have been issued, including to some of Omar’s relatives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said subpoenas have been served and “nobody will be getting a free pass because their name is carved into an expensive building.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Though the subpoenas had finally stopped coming, Deborah didn’t believe the lawsuit was truly over.

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

Also as a result of her piece, she was slapped with a one-million-dollar libel suit, subpoenaed as a witness in a liquor laws case against the Playboy Club, and received “obscene and threatening” calls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia subpoenaed JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo over whether their account closings violated the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act and related laws.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

We made an indifferent and unconcerned nation rise from lethargy and subpoenaed its conscience to appear before the judgment seat of morality on the whole question of civil rights.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

After subpoenaing records on about 130 people, only one had been referred for prosecution, his staff had told him.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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

Jordan sent letters seeking interviews with Bragg and documents before subpoenaing Pomerantz.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

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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