In most cases the police can and will get the information they need, however this requires police officers and federal agents to make formal legal requests for information in a timely manner, which typically requires a search warrant or subpoena to compel the service providers to supply the needed information.

This was not valid at the common law courts but was in the Court of Chancery ; the Lord Chancellor is reported as having said, in 1492, " where there is no remedy at common law there may be good remedy in conscience, as, for example, by a feoffment upon confidence, the feoffor has no remedy by common law, and yet by conscience he has ; and so, if the feoffee transfers to another who knows of this confidence, the feoffor, by means of a subpoena, will have his rights in this Court ".

The Crimson is currently challenging the subpoena, and it has said that it will not comply with ConnectU's demands for documents.

The party seeking to subpoena a witness must file a request for subpoena at least 15 days before trial, or else they will have to show " good cause " for why a subpoena should issue.

When Sonny's trial nears its end, the prosecutor, Claire Walsh, issues a subpoena to bring Michael in to testify, believing that Michael's testimony will ensure Sonny's conviction.

The person to be deposed ( questioned ) at a deposition, known as the deponent, is usually notified to appear at the appropriate time and place by means of a subpoena.

If a witness is reluctant to testify, then the personal service of subpoena is usually required with proof of service by non-party server.

In modern times, contempt of Congress has generally applied to the refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by a Congressional committee or subcommittee — usually seeking to compel either testimony or the production of documents.

Such process is usually " served " upon a party, to compel that party to come to court, and may take the form of a summons, mandate, subpoena, warrant, or other written demand issued by a court.

In most jurisdictions, a subpoena usually has to be served personally.

Reporting of such cases usually voids any challenge to subpoena duces tecum of the medical records by police or state authorities.

If the witness is not a party to the lawsuit ( a third party ) or reluctant to testify, then a subpoena must be served on him / her.

If the person requested to testify ( deponent ) is a party to the lawsuit or someone who works for an involved party, notice of time and place of the examination before trial can be given to the other side's attorney, but if the witness is an independent third party, a subpoena must be served on him / her if he / she is recalcitrant.

During the next few months, Cox, the United States Senate Watergate Committee, and U. S. District Judge John J. Sirica struggled with the Nixon Administration over whether Nixon could be compelled to yield those tapes in response to a grand jury subpoena.

The court therefore held the plea agreement to be clear, unambiguous, and to not grant Al-Arian immunity from the grand jury subpoena.

Western Union has been required to maintain records of pay-out locations of the individuals who may be laundering the money, though this information may only be obtained through the use of a subpoena.

The subpoena can also request the testimony to be given by phone or in person.

Typically subpoenas are issued " in blank " and it is the responsibility of the lawyer representing the plaintiff or defendant on whose behalf the testimony is to be given to serve the subpoena on the witness.

Pro se litigants who represent themselves, unlike lawyers, must ask a court clerk to officially issue them subpoena forms when they need to call witnesses by phone or in person, or when they need to officially request documents to be sent to them and / or directly to court.

Hoping Jaworski and the public would be satisfied, Nixon turned over edited transcripts of forty-three conversations, including portions of twenty conversations demanded by the subpoena.

After Benton is killed, Jack turns himself in to a subpoena executed by U. S. Marines and allows himself to be arrested at the embassy in order to let the children be removed from the war zone.

The current practice would be for the issue of a subpoena.

According to a subpoena, Miller met with an unnamed government official, later revealed to be I. Lewis " Scooter " Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, on July 8, 2003, two days after former ambassador Joseph Wilson ( the husband of Plame ) published an Op-Ed in the Times criticizing the Bush administration for " twisting " intelligence to justify war in Iraq.

If a deponent is a non-party to the action ( not involved directly in the litigation, but wanted for testimony ), production of documents can be compelled only through a proper subpoena duces tecum.

There must be a breach of testimonial duty, after having been properly served with a legitimately executed subpoena.

Usually, none of this can be the subject of a subpoena duces tecum.

Once the plaintiff alleges physical or mental injuries proximately flowing from a potentially tortious act by the defendant, or in some other disability hearing, medical records can be subject to subpoena duces tecum.

Information in bank accounts can also be the subject of a subpoena duces tecum.

May's lawyers subpoenaed President Bush to testify at the trial, but Texas Judge John K. Dietz threw out the subpoena on the grounds that the then-governor was not in a position to have enough specialized information to require his involvement.

Indymedia also sees the incident in the context of " numerous attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government ", including a subpoena to obtain IP logs from Indymedia at the occasion of the Republican National Conference,

In an attempt to pressure Lord Aylesford to drop his divorce suit, Lady Aylesford and Lord Randolph Churchill called on Alexandra and told her that if the divorce was to proceed they would subpoena her husband as a witness and implicate him in the scandal.

When Cox refused to drop his subpoena, on October 20, 1973, Nixon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus for refusing to fire the special prosecutor.

On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist while in federal service.

The subpoena was served on Al-Arian in October 2006.

In this instance, the agreement is silent on the question, and the court of appeals agrees with the government that this leaves the door open to subpoena his testimony.

In 2002 he appeared, under power of subpoena, in front of the U. S. Congress in a House Resources Subcommittee hearing on eco-terrorism.

In 2006 an Alexandria, Virginia grand jury subpoena was issued to the Minaret of Freedom Institute seeking notes about the symposium on “ The United States and Iran: It ’ s Time to Talk ” that he moderated in 1999.

The Supreme Court stated: " To read the Article II powers of the President as providing an absolute privilege as against a subpoena essential to enforcement of criminal statutes on no more than a generalized claim of the public interest in confidentiality of nonmilitary and nondiplomatic discussions would upset the constitutional balance of ' a workable government ' and gravely impair the role of the courts under Article III.

During the run-off period, Chambliss received a subpoena regarding the investigation of a lawsuit against Imperial Sugar that claims that Imperial " wrongfully " failed to remove hazards that caused the disaster of a Savannah-based sugar refinery that exploded on February 7, 2008.

In response to a subpoena, Ebbers appeared before the U. S. House Committee on Financial Services on July 8, 2002.

On June 2, 1958, Genovese testified under subpoena in the U. S. Senate McClellan Hearings on organized crime.

Nor can records be withheld from subpoena duces tecum on the grounds that production of such documents would incriminate officers or other members of the foreign corporation.

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act ( HCQIA ) of 1986 granted doctors sitting on peer review committees immunity from subpoena duces tecum, or liability for the revocation of hospital privileges of other doctors.

On January 28, 2008, it was reported that the congressional subpoena had been withdrawn after Knoblauch agreed to give a deposition on February 1, 2008.

At this time Rosenthal was issued with a subpoena to appear before Senator McClellan's subcommittee on Gambling and Organized Crime, accused of match fixing.

In early 1985, the President's Commission on Organized Crime issued a sealed subpoena ordering Presser to testify about mafia influence in the Teamsters union.