What's the difference between discoverable and subpoena?

Discoverable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are also problems with gestures such as swiping the screen because they're "inherently vague", and "lack discoverability": there's no way to tell what a gesture will do at any particular point.
  • (2) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
  • (3) It has been named the Skywalker hoolock gibbon by its discoverers, who are Star Wars fans.
  • (4) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
  • (5) Politicians like to tell voters that their policies are a rational response to a perfectly discoverable set of facts.
  • (6) One of those funded is Discoverables Ltd, a company limited by shares set up by youth charity Spark+Mettle.
  • (7) The conclusion is that to Wells belongs the singular honor and title of discoverer.
  • (8) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
  • (9) The word "scopolamine" is derived from "Scopolia carniolica", a solanaceous plant so named by Carl von Linné in honour of supposed discoverer, J.
  • (10) During an eclectic address – in which he questioned the audience of vice chancellors on basic science, including the name of the discoverer of sodium – Johnson said: "I looked at the recent figures for foreign students coming to this country, and I do not regard what seemed to me to be a reduction in those numbers as necessarily a positive economic indicator.
  • (11) The oil company was forced to send both ships – the Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk – to Asia for repair , effectively ruling out a return to drilling this calendar year.
  • (12) On Sunday, the birthday celebrations go public, with talks on cosmology by the Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, one of the discoverers of dark energy, and long-time Hawking collaborator Kip Thorne.
  • (13) Due to the lowered resistance of the organism, acute pulpitic manifestations without discoverable external cause or exacerbation of chronic periapical processes may occur in the cours of influenza infections.
  • (14) "We think we have a really good relationship with the Journal because they recognise that even with the pay model they felt it was really important to ensure that their content is still discoverable.
  • (15) Whether incident reports are discoverable depends on the purpose of the reports and the laws of the state where the reports are filed.
  • (16) An account is given of teachers and discoverers of venereological importance after von Hebra and Sigmund to Arzt.
  • (17) Thus notions of the newborn as an isolated amoral id, and of the infant as an egocentric discoverer of the object concept, must be rejected.
  • (18) But there was still the problem of discoverability.
  • (19) Two of these patients had no discoverable primary tumour.
  • (20) In the meantime, BP has placed a containment cap on Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer which takes some of the oil and gas to a drillship, the Discoverer Enterprise .

Subpoena


Definition:

  • (n.) A writ commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty; the process by which a defendant in equity is commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff's bill.
  • (v. t.) To serve with a writ of subpoena; to command attendance in court by a legal writ, under a penalty in case of disobedience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They have, in turn, been subpoenaed by Lamar Smith, chairman of Congress’ science committee, to hand over details of their investigations.
  • (2) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
  • (3) "We don't really know what the evidence is," Wisniewski said on NBC’s Meet the Press, pointing out that if Wildstein had personal possession of material implicating Christie, he would have been expected to include it in his previous submission under subpoena.
  • (4) The judicial screws are tightening on Rupert Murdoch's empire in America as the US justice department prepares to subpoena News Corporation in its investigation into whether the company broke anti-bribery and hacking laws on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (5) "If that constitutes relevance for purposes of Section 215 [of the Patriot Act] – or for purposes of grand jury subpoena, for that matter," Wittes wrote on Wednesday, "then isn't all data relevant to all investigations?"
  • (6) No individuals had received subpoenas from the authorities, Horta-Osório said, although parts of the bank had and no one had been fired.
  • (7) You need subpoena power, you need access to records and information, you need access to emails, you cannot leave it up to an author to say that an author has to prove a criminal case.” Schweizer is known as a conservative commentator .
  • (8) The attorneys general of New York and Connecticut also issue subpoenas to Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and UBS.
  • (9) Special prosecutors have wide powers to follow an investigation wherever it leads Mr Mueller can subpoena papers and tapes, and go to the courts, as Mr Cox did at the time of Watergate, to require cooperation.
  • (10) In addition, recommendations to minimize the service interruptions caused by the subpoena are offered.
  • (11) The attorney should be responsible to see that a proper authorization is submitted with the records request or subpoena.
  • (12) In the last six months of 2012, 68% of those requests were made under ECPA subpoenas which do not require a court order, unlike most wiretaps or requests to search properties.
  • (13) Risen writes on botched Iranian operation, gets subpoenaed."
  • (14) But Bryant said a separate investigation should be held by the standards and privileges committee because of the power it wields to subpoena witnesses to attend.
  • (15) The FHFA lawsuit, which follows a subpoena issued to the banks last year, demands that the banks pay compensation to cover some of the $30bn (£18.5bn) Fannie and Freddie lost on mortgage-backed securities.
  • (16) He may also be prosecutable for having taken foreign payments without permission as a retired military officer, for having failed to register as a foreign agent and for having failed to comply with subpoenas.
  • (17) Efforts to quash the subpoena require proof that the materials requested are irrelevant to the case, not subpoenaed for "good cause," or that compliance would be unduly oppressive and burdensome.
  • (18) It includes a suggested form for use by physicians when presented with a subpoena duces tecum by a records collection company.
  • (19) The FBI issued subpoenas as part of the investigation.
  • (20) Also this month, New York's department of financial services sent subpoenas to 22 companies involved with Bitcoin seeking information on their business practices.

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