Word: subpoenae
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...Power ordered the grand jury to hear more witnesses. Sears refused to comply, saying that the judge had no authority to make the jury do so. Enraged, Power then cited Sears for contempt and fined him $50 an hour round the clock until such time as he agreed to subpoena additional witnesses. While the dispute went up to the Illinois Supreme Court, Hanrahan, who had previously ignored an invitation to testify before the jury, decided to appear after all. He talked for ten days...
...political history-sponsoring Composer Hanns Eisler, supporting Playwright Bertolt Brecht, signing a friend-of-the-court brief for Producer Adrian Scott, one of the original Hollywood Ten-got him into serious trouble. Soon he was called to testify by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He never received the subpoena, he says, but all employment abruptly vanished. Losey left for England, where he managed to work pseudonymously on television shows and several shoestring features...
...other New York families. A great deal of the scrutiny came from law-enforcement agencies. Mafia bosses, who had built careful layers of insulation around themselves?never dealing directly with button men, trusting only a few close lieutenants?found their protective covering being stripped away. Grand jury subpoenas were issued to men convinced they were safe from such summonses. The high-rolling lifestyle they enjoyed was sharply straitened by Internal Revenue Service agents, who carefully checked any discrepancies between reported income and visible spending. Most of the scrutiny was the result of a growing public clamor for a curb...
This technical move mean's that Guberman will not have to rely on hear-say to show where the calls originated and also that he will not have to subpoena the phone company records for use in criminal court. "I want it settled within Harvard," Guberman said...
Zorza said that while he had intended to go to court even though the subpoena had been served to his roommate, he had received a call late last night from one of the defendants who told him that his subpoena had been cancelled. Zorza said that he would probably not be in court...