subpoenable

comparative more subpoenable · superlative most subpoenable

1. Capable of being, or permitted to be, subpoenaed.

   MDC argues that since there is no statutory authority mandating inclusion of the access clause in the parties' contract, MDC's documents are not subpoenable under 31 U.S.C. § 54(c)(1) (Supp. IV 1980).

   1984, George Gardner Fagg, United States of America and Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States of America v. McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Inc., 751 F.2d 220

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   It has been astutely pointed out that: "As is often the case, the ultimate determination of what is discoverable under Rule 16 or subpoenable under Rule 17(c) depends upon the attitude that a district judge has about the nature of a criminal prosecution and the rights of both the Government and the defendant.

   1963, Harry Graham Balter, Tax Fraud and Evasion: a Guide to Civil and Criminal Principles and Practice under Federal Law, ed. 3, Ronald Press Co., page 132

   Discouraged, the defendant switched to "flawless English," and then went on to another expedient, advising that what he had been charged with doing was in fact the work of Satan; who of course was not subpoenable by the prosecutor.

   2004 October 6, William F. Buckley, “Saddam Lives”, in National Review