(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has sent subpoenas to more than 50 hedge-fund advisers as it investigates whether individuals spread false rumors to manipulate shares in two Wall Street firms, The Wall Street Journal said, citing a...
WASHINGTON -- President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. The president's decision drew a sharp protest Wednesday...
Goldman Sachs, the most powerful investment bank on Wall Street, has found itself at the centre of a storm over the events that led to the collapse of Bear Stearns, as regulators issued subpoenas in the hunt for evidence of market manipulation. The heads of Bear Stearns...
WASHINGTON -- Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena and refused to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he influenced the prosecution of a former Democratic governor of Alabama. Rep. Linda Sanchez, chairman of a House subcommittee,...
Social Security claimants do not have a constitutional right to subpoena or cross-examine the doctors consulted by administrative law judges in disability hearings, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. Wednesday's decision, by a unanimous panel, rejects dicta in an 18-year-old 8th Circuit decision that said...
Social Security claimants do not have a constitutional right to subpoena or cross-examine the doctors consulted by administrative law judges in disability hearings, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. Wednesday's decision, by a unanimous panel, rejects dicta in an 18-year-old 8th Circuit decision that said...
WASHINGTON AFP — A former top aide to President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, failed to show up for subpoenaed testimony before the House of Representatives Thursday in a probe of controversial firings of federal prosecutors, at Bush's request, sources said. Rove, called to testify in an investigation...
NEW YORK - A federal judge yesterday denied a presentencing request by a lawyer for Tim Donaghy to allow an ex-FBI agent to testify about the disgraced NBA referee's cooperation with authorities. U.S. District Judge Carol Amon said during a morning hearing in Brooklyn that she saw no basis for...
A lawyer seeking the sources of some Pennsylvania journalists in a grand-jury leak investigation also went looking for the reporters' cell-phone numbers. He went to the state Senate's top Democrat for help. Scranton lawyer Sal Cognetti Jr. called Sen. Robert Mellow's office seeking cell numbers for "eight or nine" reporters,...
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office has subpoenaed board minutes for the years 2001 to 2006 from the Chester Upland School District, superintendent Gregory Thornton said yesterday. Thornton, who became superintendent last summer, said that he was told about three weeks ago to expect a subpoena for the records, but was...
WASHINGTON -- A House panel on Friday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for transcripts of interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney during the federal probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Signed by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., the subpoena requests all...
A Dauphin County judge has ruled that reporters for six news organizations do not have to turn over documents related to what they wrote during the grand jury investigation of casino owner Louis A. DeNaples. Lawyers for DeNaples had sought the documentary evidence and the testimony of 15 journalists about...
ELDORADO, Texas -- A grand jury looking into alleged crimes involving members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church convened here Wednesday, taking testimony from polygamous sect members but not handing up any indictments. The Schleicher County grand jury is expected to meet again next month. ...
Lawyers for The Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News asked a Dauphin County judge yesterday to throw out subpoenas for 10 journalists called to testify at a hearing on whether grand-jury secrecy rules were violated in the investigation of casino owner Louis DeNaples. In court papers, the lawyers said the...
Lawyers for the Daily News and the Inquirer are seeking to block efforts to force 10 reporters to testify about their sources in the probe into now-indicted slots parlor owner Louis DeNaples. A lawyer for the papers' owner said that the subpoenas issued recently to the papers and the reporters...
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Lawyers will go to court today seeking a permanent restraining order to keep a high-profile FLDS member from contacting a 16-year-old girl. The girl has fired off a letter to the judge overseeing the massive custody case involving the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ...
A 16-year-old girl at the center of a legal fight has finally been subpoenaed to testify before a Texas grand jury investigating members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church. The girl's mother was given a subpoena on Saturday, the girl's court-appointed attorney told the Deseret News. It orders...
U.S. District Court, Western District of N.Y. Personal Jurisdiction Subpoena Accurso v. Cooper Power Systems Inc. 06-CV-848S Judge Scott Background: In this gender discrimination suit, the defendant filed...
The legal web surrounding the Fundamentalist LDS Church's real- estate holdings arm continues to grow, with subpoenas, filings, counterfilings and depositions under way. Lawyers for a former child bride who testified against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs want to keep the United Effort Plan Trust on the hook...
WASHINGTON -- Escalating a fight with Democrats on Capitol Hill, the White House on Friday invoked executive privilege in refusing to turn over documents to a congressional committee investigating the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to deny California permission to implement its own vehicle emission standards. The Bush...
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