Commonwealth v. Tyson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Nixon · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Branzburg v. Hayes · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond
Most-quoted passages
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“As a general rule, individuals possess no “constitutional [] immunity] from ... subpoenas” and other requests for pre-trial discovery. Parties to both civil litigation and criminal trials have an important interest in obtaining “every man’s evidence” and when called upon, citizens must provide whatever information they are “capable of giving.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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