(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.
Writ
Definition:
(obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.
() imp. & p. p. of Write.
(n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.
(n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.
(Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write
Example Sentences:
(1) To hear the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA being depicted as a man whose job as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is "to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland" is, to say the least, ironic.
(2) This we can see writ large in the prime minister’s skirmishes with Philip Hammond , the only member of government visibly considering the national interest.
(3) Abuses thet do exist should be handled through writs of habeas corpus and malpractice suits, remedies much more available now than in the past.
(4) Australia needs urgent legislation which strengthens the rules around government spending once the writs are issued.” As opposition leader in 2007, Kevin Rudd railed against the Howard government’s political advertising, which he called a “cancer on democracy”.
(5) In a letter to Infantino accompanying a draft writ that could be lodged in the Swiss courts, lawyers call on Fifa to “acknowledge that it has acted wrongfully by awarding the World Cup 2022 to Qatar without demanding the assurance that Qatar observes fundamental human and labour rights vis-à-vis migrant construction workers whose work is related to the 2022 World Cup”.
(6) The prime minister's tactics failed, raising questions about how far his writ runs in the party.
(7) In London, the courts ruled his detention unlawful and ordered a writ of habeas corpus to be issued so he could be freed, but this was ignored by the US military authorities.
(8) It is a sense of his own god-like importance, as opposed to Holy Writ, that persuades him that his convictions on the moment a new life begins – "it is just my view" – should prevail over women's choices.
(9) The challenge faced by the incoming Asda chief executive was writ large today as Waitrose posted sales figures that showed it growing at a far faster rate than its larger rivals.
(10) Historically, about 7% of activity occurs each day in the week after the governor-general issues the writs.
(11) His job is to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland ...
(12) Wrapping the existing building with a grungy cocktail of corrugated metal sheeting, raw plywood and chain-link fencing, through which angular glazed structures burst open, it was his maverick manifesto writ large.
(13) This was writ large at the outset, when Rose fired a flame thrower without batting an eyelid while Sheeran was handed a glitter canon and very nearly fell backwards with shock at the force of the “explosion”.
(14) Notices were pinned to windows of the building saying that a writ of possession was obtained from the high court on 24 November giving Camelot permission to remove the “unlawful occupants” on 1 December.
(15) Wednesday's decision by the UK supreme court in the case of Yunus Rahmatullah , a man detained by the British in Iraq, might seem to be about the hallowed writ of habeas corpus .
(16) We want it first because we lodged our writ long before the others."
(17) July 2012 Two high court judges dismiss Qatada's application for judicial review and a writ of habeas corpus.
(18) Does a vague law from 1789 – the so-called All Writs Act – give courts authority to make tech companies remake their products in times of duress?
(19) Keogh, whose campaign strategy has been to shelve his lengthy CV and focus on the fact that he, unlike Hastie, was born in Canning, but whose campaign events have been largely centred around the swing voting suburbs of Armadale and Kelmscott, was asked if he had made the trip down to Wagerup, 90km from Armadale, on the southern fringe of the electorate, since the writs were issued.
(20) It’s a place where American issues play out writ small, in ways that can affect governance on a grand scale.